Some of us have suspected this for ages, but Reuters has just published an article citing a study from the February issue of Archives of Surgery which suggests a strong correlation between a surgeon’s past gaming experience and their ability to perform laparoscopy and other similar surgeries.

Out of 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York that participated in the study, the nine doctors who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster, and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills than the 15 surgeons who had never played video games before.

But at the same time,

“Parents should not see this study as beneficial if their child is playing video games for over an hour a day,” Gentile said. “Spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child’s chances of getting into medical school.”