To mark the new millennium Heart has decided, with the support of the British Cardiac Society and BMJ Publishing Group, to recognise and develop the potential role for the journal in the important arena of postgraduate education. This issue contains the first of a series of articles that will extend over three years, appearing at the end of each issue of the journal under the heading “Education in Heart”. We have, perhaps ambitiously, two objectives.  The first is the worldwide need for …