ABSTRACT
The earliest known attempt at integrated medical teaching could be said to have taken place under the celebrated plane tree on the island of Cos in the Aegean Sea, where Hippocrates taught his disciples the foundations of modern medicine. Medical knowledge was so circumscribed at the time, and the skills of medicine so limited, that the need to package the content into smaller units did not exist. Hippocrates was able not only to integrate this knowledge and impart it to his disciples but also to combine the skill and the art of medical practice, as was evidenced by the enunciation of his famous Oath.
