PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR
RESEARCH IN MEMORY

Purpose of study

• Study the effects of performing two tasks on working memory with the hopes of improving surgical education for medical students

Why you should participate?

• The opportunity to use a laparoscope (surgical equipment) with a box trainer
• Contribution to improving medical education

We are looking for:

• Right-handed students
• No auditory or memory disabilities
• No upper extremity injuries
• Perfect or corrected vision (glasses or contacts)

Your responsibilities:

• You would be asked to complete a motor task and auditory task simultaneously using a laparoscope (not on another person)
• Your participation would involve only 1 session; the session will be approximately 20-30 minutes long.

For more information about this study, or to volunteer for this study, please contact: [email protected]


This study has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance by the Hamilton Health Sciences Research Ethics Board.

It is an impressive study about memory and it is the opportunity of teenagers to test their memory and be a part of a research study.

People are just lining up for this one eh

Did this two weeks ago. It was very hard...

oh nice, a real life Surgeon Simulator

is this the one where you record it with gopro 3s?

Originally Posted by ZSimon

is this the one where you record it with gopro 3s?

I believe they did use a gopro to record it, yes. I could barely do the task as it was, but they have you do a memory thing at the same time and I did hilariously bad :(