Since the establishment of the institute forty years ago, special attention has been paid to the education of nurses/technicians and medical doctors. Continuity of cooperation with the Medical Center in Houston (Texas Heart Institute and Memorial Hermann) has been maintained for decades. During the 1990s, the education of more than sixty nurses and medical doctors enabled the implementation of a heart and liver transplant program. In recent years, intensive training in all areas of cardiology, anesthesiology, cardiac and vascular surgery has been provided in the form of academic and subspecialist training programs at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade and multidisciplinary training in numerous international centers.