is utilized by undergraduate and postgraduate trainees in the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry. Basic surgical skills are taught to undergraduate dental students on an individual basis and to undergraduate medical students in year 2 (groups of two to three) and in year 3 (groups of two to five) at the start of each general surgical rotation. Postgraduate trainees in the Core Surgery Program develop microvascular skills during the Plastic Surgery rotation.  The microsurgery laboratory is also used for the Advanced Surgical Skills Course . Basic surgical skills are also taught to postgraduate trainees in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Opthalmology Family Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. The laboratory is also used for the Basic Surgical Skills Course, required by all researchers at the King Saud University.  In previous years, the laboratory was used for small animal research, and still retains this capacity.