The College of Medicine (CoM) is a
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
-based organisation founded in October 2010 that grew out of
The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health
The Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) was a controversial charity run by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) founded in 1993. The foundation promoted complementary and alternative medicine, preferring to use the term " integrated health", ...
after it was shut down due to accounting fraud. It is chaired by
Michael Dixon, a former director of the Foundation. It promotes
alternative medicine.
Former director
George Lewith
George Lewith (12 January 1950 – 17 March 2017) was a professor at the University of Southampton researching alternative medicine and a practitioner of complementary medicine. He was a prominent and sometimes controversial advocate of complem ...
was a council member of the Foundation
- his research unit at the University of Southampton played an important role in the development of the foundation.
When the College of Medicine was launched, several commentators writing in the
''Guardian'' and the
''BMJ'', expressed the opinion that the new organisation was simply a re-branding of the Prince's ''Foundation'',
some describing it as "Hamlet without the Prince".
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2010 establishments in the United Kingdom
Alternative medicine organizations
Medical and health organisations based in the United Kingdom