BCOM - British College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Osteonet

BCOM's Student Extranet

History

BCOM - 70 Years Of Teaching Osteopathy In London


1936    British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy (BCNO) founded, offering diplomas in osteopathy and naturopathy.
1942    The College's initial site at Wyndham Place is destroyed by a direct hit from a bomb in the Blitz.
1949    The College moves to Craven Terrace, Bayswater.
1953    Stanley Lief donates Frazer House to the College.Shortly afterwards, the College moves to its present site.
1954    The first year of teaching takes place at Frazer House, where most teaching at BCOM takes place to this day.
1989    Accreditation by the 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 accreditation by the new statutory body, the General Osteopathic Council. 
           The College launches ICAOR (International Conference on Advances in Osteopathic Research).
2002    BCNO becomes the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM). 
           Introduction of College intra/extranet system, Vesalius.
2003    A state-of-the-art lecturing and student-facilities suite is completed in the brand-new Frazer House extension.
2005    Sector-leading research laboratory completed at Lief House.
2006    New Masters Pathway given approval by the University of Westminster. 
           ICAOR returns to BCOM for its sixth iteration.
2008    BCOM launches its new website and intranet.
            BCOM validates its undergraduate Masters in Osteopathy.

 

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.