Footnotes

• Competing interests In compliance with EBAC/EACCME guidelines, all authors participating in Education in Heart have disclosed potential conflicts of interest that might cause a bias in the article. Isabelle van Gelder has received consulting fees/honoraria from Medtronic, MSD, Sanofi-Aventis, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Aga medical, and research grants from the Netherlands Heart Foundation, the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute the Netherlands, and from Astra Zeneca, Biotronik, Medtronic, Sanofi-Aventis, Boehringer Ingelheim, St Jude Medical, and Boston Scientific.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed