Surgical skills are learned through deliberate practice, and veterinary educators are increasingly turning to models for teaching and assessing surgical skills. Development of veterinary surgical models is expanding and becoming an area of focus for individual researchers and academic institutions. This lecture will review the literature specific to veterinary surgical skills models and discuss the themes of fidelity, educational outcomes, and validity evidence. The lecture will include commercially available models as well as those that have been created and utilized at various veterinary colleges worldwide. These models teach orthopedic surgery, ligation and suturing, open celiotomy and abdominal surgery, sterilization surgeries, and minimally invasive surgeries. Grading rubrics associated with these models will also be discussed. This lecture will describe the gaps in the literature, including room for growth in the collection of validity evidence and in developing models for teaching large animal surgery, training surgical residents, and providing continuing education to practitioners. This lecture will describe the current models and trends, and provide attendees with an understanding of current best practices in the use of models for surgical skills training.