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MEDICAL TRAINING

Video game update for playing doctor

The health-care profession increasingly is turning to video games for training.

One, called "Code Orange," helps doctors learn to manage mass casualty incidents by playing a variety of roles, said Lucien Parsons, producer of the game for BreakAway Ltd.

Video games have been found to improve marksmanship among military personnel, said Claudia Johnston, a Texas A&M-Corpus Christi researcher who is heading a Navy-funded project to develop a game to train doctors.

"If you can do that, why can't you learn to start an IV online?" Johnston said.

--Associated Press