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Perhaps the first true teaching hospital known to us, at the Academy of Gondishapu, was established by the Sassanid Persians by the 5th century CE. Groups of medical scholars, who also came from the Byzantine Empire as Christian refugees because they were Nestorian Christians, banned by the emperor in Constantinople, came to Gundeshapur in Southwest Iran. They helped found an academy that had devoted medical facilities not only for healing and practice of surgery but the academy was now dedicated to education. It is here that concepts of anatomy were likely developed. By the 6th and 7th centuries CE, it likely became the most important medical center in the world. The academy attracted physicians from much of the ancient world, including from India and China. Medical students now were required to work closely with their educators and became apprenticed in the practice.
==The Rise of Early Medieval Hospitals== With the Muslim conquest, the city and academy fell into eventual disrepair; however, the knowledge and training were now transferred to Baghdad, as that city became the new center for medical education and development of hospitals.
==Development in the Medieval Period==
