1 WHAT PROBLEMS WERE ADDRESSED? The COVID-19 pandemic posed unparalleled challenges to medical education, forcing a shift in traditional teaching paradigms from in-person learning to virtual instruction. While prior work has demonstrated the efficacy of game-based, virtual learning across numerous medical topics such as histology, anatomy and immunology,1 there remains a paucity of online teaching tools in surgical education, which inherently requires more hands-on, in-person learning.