BCOM - 75 Years Of Teaching Osteopathy In London

1936    British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy (BCNO) founded by Stanley Lief
1942    The College's initial site is destroyed by a direct hit from a bomb in the Blitz
1949    The College moves to Craven Terrace, Bayswater
1953    Hector Frazer donates Frazer House to the College
1954    The first year of teaching takes place at Frazer House
1989    Accreditation by the General Council and Register of Osteopaths (GCRO - the original private professional register)
1992    Honours degree validated by the University of Westminster
1994    Conversion degree validated by the University of Westminster
1996    Lief House site opened by Glenda Jackson MP
1998    Satellite clinic at Soho Community Hospital in London's West End opened
1999    RQ awarded to BCOM by the new professional register, the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC)
1999    The College launches the International Conference on Advances in Osteopathic Research (ICAOR)
2002    BCNO becomes the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM)
2003    Frazer House extension completed
2005    Sector-leading research laboratory completed at Lief House
2006    New 3+2 Masters Pathway given approval by the University of Westminster
2008    BCOM validates its innovative undergraduate Masters in Osteopathy degree with London Metropolitan University
2011    BCOM celebrates its 75th Anniversary

In 1953, a grateful patient of Lief, Hector Frazer, donated the property in Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, to the College and the first academic year began here in 1954. The building was designed by two eminent architects of the day, Batterbury and Huxley, for the marine artist Thomas Davidson R.A. It is a superb example of the Queen Anne style fashionable in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Having formally opened Lief House, Glenda Jackson MP watches an osteopathic demonstration by students.

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BCOM - 75 Years Of Teaching Osteopathy In London