POVISA Hospital 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Step By Step: Microsurgical training method combining two nonliving animal models José Couceiro1, Raquel Castro2, Huey Tien2, Tuna Ozyurekoglu2 1Orthopaedic Surgery Department, Hand Surgery Unit, POVISA Hospital, 2Christine M Kleintert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery Here we describe how to set up a small microsurgical practice station and a simple and inexpensive method for the training of microsurgery with non-living animal models.