Trauma Team‘s Surgery Mode will be familiar to returning Trauma Center players, since previous entries in the series only focused on surgery. It proceeds in a similar manner as in earlier Wii entries of the game, with a few notable differences.

First off, something that’s commonplace in the Trauma Center series is absent in Trauma Team. There’s no healing touch. So if you tended to rely a bit o much on that special move during surgeries, prepare to go cold turkey. Everything’s by the book now.

The doctor for Surgery Mode also possesses a different sort of personality and backstory than previous Trauma Center doctors. CR-S01 is a prisoner with amnesia. He was arrested after a biological attack at a college by the FBI and sentenced to 250 years in prison for what happened. Is he guilty? You’ll have to play and see…

The next time your mother/significant other says videogames have no real-life value, point them in the direction of this article, which recaps an interview between News 8 Austin and surgeon Mark Smith. Smith claims that playing the Wii (with it’s motion controls and demand for precise movements) can help trainees improve their skills by 50%, more »

Many people would be inclined to think that video games have a negative effect on job performance in most professions, especially one as rigorous as a surgeon. However, NewScientist reports that Kanav Kahol and Marshall Smith of Phoenix, Arizona’s Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center found the opposite when it comes to Nintendo’s Wii. Trainee doctors more »