Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Dean Street School of Medicine
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Westminster Hospital Medical School
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1834-
History
Established as a private medical school in 1834, the Dean Street School of Medicine was one of the schools pupils at St George’s Hospital were expected to attend for further lectures. The others, prior to the establishment of the Kinnerton Street School of Medicine, which eventually became St George’s Hospital Medical School, included the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, the School of Medicine and Anatomy adjoining St George’s Hospital or Lane’s School of Medicine, and Joshua Brooke’s school of anatomy on Great Marlborough Street. Although teaching at the school was stopped in 1847, the school reopened in 1849. The teaching of pre-clinical subjects ended at Westminster in 1905 and was moved to King’s College. A new medical school opened in 1938, and moved again in 1966 to Page Street, Westminster. It merged with Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1984 and became known as the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, moving in 1993 with the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to Fulham Road, and becoming part of the Imperial College School of Medicine on its formation in 1997.