The College of Medicine explained

The College of Medicine (CoM) is a United Kingdom-based organisation founded in October 2010 that grew out of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health[1] after it was shut down due to accounting fraud.[2] It is chaired by Michael Dixon, a former director of the Foundation.[3] It promotes alternative medicine.

Former director George Lewith was a council member of the Foundation[4] - his research unit at the University of Southampton played an important role in the development of the foundation.[5]

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,[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] some describing it as "Hamlet without the Prince".

Notes and References

  1. Prince's foundation metamorphoses into new College of Medicine . Nigel Hawkes . BMJ . British Medical Journal . 2010 . 341 . 6126 . 10.1136/bmj.c6126. 72649598 .
  2. News: The Telegraph. Homeopathy is witchcraft, say doctors. https://web.archive.org/web/20100518091230/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/alternativemedicine/7728281/Homeopathy-is-witchcraft-say-doctors.html. dead. 18 May 2010. Laura Donnelly. 15 May 2010 . London.
  3. News: Clarence House . Court Circular: September 14 . 22 June 2018 . The Times . 14 September 2013 . subscription .
  4. News: Rouse. Rose. Prescribing the good life. 3 March 2012. The Guardian. 23 February 1999.
  5. Lewith. George. Complementary Medicine Research Unit. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. January 2005. 2. 3. 399–407. 10.1093/ecam/neh109. 16136220. 1193549.
  6. News: College of Medicine born from ashes of Prince Charles's holistic health charity . Ian Sample . The Guardian . August 2, 2010 . London.
  7. News: College of Medicine is a lobby group promoting unproven treatments . Edzard Ernst . . 10 January 2012.
  8. British Medical Journal . 343 . d3712 . 10.1136/bmj.d3712 . 15 June 2011 . Lobby Watch: The College of Medicine . Jane Cassidy . 21677014. 263577529 .
  9. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4368 . 10.1136/bmj.d4368 . 12 July 2011 . The College of Medicine is Prince's Foundation reincarnated . David Colquhoun . 21750061. 26752930 .
  10. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4372 . 10.1136/bmj.d4372 . 12 July 2011 . College of Medicine: What is integrative health? . James May . 21750063. 206893456 .
  11. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4370 . 10.1136/bmj.d4370 . 12 July 2011 . College of Medicine or College of Quackery? . Edzard Ernst . 21750062. 8061172 .

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