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 continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...

-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 Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and al ...

. Former director George Lewith 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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