Editing King's College London (section)

=== Medicine ===
{{Main|GKT School of Medical Education}}

Medical research at King's College London is spread across multiple faculties, particularly the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, and the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/faculties-departments|title=Faculties and departments|publisher=King's College London|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref>

King's claims to be the largest centre for healthcare education in Europe.<ref name="kingspartnersfacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.kingshealthpartners.org/about-us/our-partnership |title=Key Facts|access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=King's Health Partners}}</ref> The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine has three main teaching hospitals – [[Guy's Hospital]], [[King's College Hospital]] and [[St Thomas' Hospital]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/medicine-mbbs|title= Medicine MBBS|publisher=King's College London|date= 7 August 2020|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> – and a branch campus in Portsmouth run in collaboration with the [[University of Portsmouth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/graduate-entry-medicine-programme-university-of-portsmouth-campus|title=Graduate Entry Medicine Programme (University of Portsmouth branch campus) MBBS|publisher=King's College London|date=13 December 2023 |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> King's College London Dental Institute was the largest dental school in Europe {{as of|2010|lc=y}}.<ref>{{Cite news |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Put a smile back on your face|first=Roger |last=Dobson| access-date =7 September 2010 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/put-a-smile-back-on-your-face-554765.html| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100514065529/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/put-a-smile-back-on-your-face-554765.html| url-status =dead| archive-date =14 May 2010 |date=29 July 2004}}</ref> The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, which became part of King's in 1993, is the oldest professional school of nursing in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/about/ |title=Nursing & Midwifery – About us|access-date=7 October 2010 |publisher=King's College London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022183356/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/about/|archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref>

King's is a major centre for biomedical research. It is a founding member of [[King's Health Partners]], one of the largest [[academic health sciences centre]]s in Europe with a turnover of over £2&nbsp;billion and approximately 25,000 employees.<ref name="kingspartnersfacts" /> It also is home to the [[Medical Research Council (UK)#Institutes, centres and units|Medical Research Council]]'s MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders,<ref name="unitscentres">{{cite web |url= https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/mrc/institutes-units-and-centres/list/ |title= MRC list of institutes, units and centres |access-date= 21 June 2024 |publisher= Medical Research Council }}</ref> and is part of two of the twelve biomedical research centres established by the [[National Institute for Health and Care Research]] (NIHR) in England – the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biomedical Research Centres |url=http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/biomedical-research-centres.htm |publisher=National Institute for Health Research|access-date=23 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423184838/http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/biomedical-research-centres.htm|archive-date=23 April 2015 }}</ref>

The Drug Control Centre at King's was established in 1978 and is the only [[World Anti-Doping Agency|WADA]] accredited anti-doping laboratory in the UK and holds the official UK contract for running [[doping (sport)|doping]] tests on UK athletes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/forensics/accredited-services/drug-control-centre |title=Drug Control Centre|access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> In 1997, it became the first [[International Olympic Committee]] accredited laboratory to meet the [[ISO/IEC 17025]] quality standard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/sport/fairness/control |title=The Drug Control Centre at King's College |publisher=King's College London|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> The centre was the anti-doping facility for the [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012 Olympic]] and [[2012 Summer Paralympics|Paralympic Games]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/aes/research/drugcontrol/olympics2012.aspx |title=London Olympics 2012|access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208091952/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/aes/research/drugcontrol/olympics2012.aspx|archive-date=8 December 2012 }}</ref>