Footnotes

• Contributors COM and PME both reviewed the literature, interpreted the data, and drafted the manuscript. Both authors are responsible for the overall content as guarantors.

• Funding This work was undertaken at University College London Hospitals/University College London who received a proportion of funding from the Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres funding scheme.

• 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. The authors have no competing interests.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.