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Ideally, training initially focuses on basic skills task training before progressing to specific surgical procedure training. Skills training such as the VALS program should be considered only the starting point of MIS training. Currently, our institution train all first‐year residents in a VALS‐like curricula in the VALT lab and test competency before proceeding to primary surgeon's role. The resulting improvement in OR performance is not only often dramatic but also highly individually variable. Preliminary data show that inexperienced surgeons are able to perform the highly complex procedure of suture‐ligated ovariectomy, immediately after the training [37].