This month’s issue begins with two articles that focus on the current state of wound care education. The old paradigm for wound care training is outdated and does not match the substantial increases in technology and therapeutic options currently, and soon to be, available. The wound care market is estimated to be a 15 billion dollar per year worldwide market, with the United States representing 40% of the total market share. With an increasing number of diabetic patients and aging population and an epidemic of obesity, there will be continuous growth in the number of patients with nonhealing wounds. Wound care clinicians are becoming more involved in acute wounds, inpatient woundcare, patientsafety issues,andassisting with formulary development for hospitals. Although traditionally a nursing field, wound care now includes clinicians from all aspects of the healthcare delivery system. Currently, wound care education is a patchwork of review courses, certification exams, wound societies, and on-the-job training. The following two articles attempt to outline some of the changes in the delivery of wound care education, which may shape the future formation of an actual wound care specialty. The education of wound care physicians is discussed in the first article. 1 The creation of the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair in the United States is one step toward formalizing a physician wound care curriculum. In the second article, Lisa Corbett describes the transition in the nursing community asmore wound nurses go back