Vizier Rashid-al-Din Hamadani is undoubtedly one of the distinguished figures in Iran’s History. His capability in Medicine brought him to the king of the Mongols, Abagha Khan. Of his brilliant performance, once can refer to founding the Educational Complex of Rab’e Rashidi in near Tabriz that was the biggest Educaional and Scientific Medical School of the time. Noteworthy to add that it was the largest educational center of Ilkhans which is as significant as the old institutions of higher learning and the sceitific centers like Gondishapur and Baghdad’s Nizamiyyah in terms of sceinece, and management. The eduscientific branches of Rab’e Rashidi is variant; its administrative, research and educational organization is analogous with the latest samples of the current world. Of the prominent centers of this complex is Rashidi’s Hospital that plays a very important role in preventing the decline of Iranian-Islamic Medicine. Rashidi’s Hospital as a Medical Faculty using the best facility as well as the physicians had an effective part in the development of Modern Medical Teaching
Beheshti Seresht M, Parvish M. Rashidi’s the House of Healing vanguard of Medical Education in Modern Period. jiitm 2014; 5 (2) :180-190 URL: http://jiitm.ir/article-1-374-en.html