9 one-week modules over three years
Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide
A part-time post-graduate training for physicians
International Anthroposophic Physician Certification
A new cohort of the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine will start in Autumn 2025. The first module is 4 to 12 October 2025.
Please note that the following is content is being updated to reflect the 2025 course and may be subject to change.
Is there a place for the whole person in contemporary Medicine?
Can we move beyond reductionist science to embrace the soul and spirit as well as the physical body?
Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.
Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.
Module Details & Topics Covered
It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.
The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.
The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.
In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.
Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.
Module Details & Topics Covered
Module 1 OCT 4th - 12th 2025 at Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Four Organs, Qualitative Anatomy; Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research; Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements; Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.
Module 2 FEB 7th -14th 2026 at Emerson College | Living Morphology and Projective Geometry; Tria Principia, Phenomenologic Study of Polarity in Human Skeleton; Child Development – Karin Michael and other presenters; Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability; Biographical Studies – Marah Evans; Inner Path Work on the Trials & Six Soul Exercises.
Module 3 MAY 1st - 8th 2026 at Emerson College | 8 Metals Phenomenology (delete Plants); Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’; Medicinal Plant Study.
Module 4 JUL 3rd - 10th 2026 at Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia; Clay Modelling Therapy, Anthroposophic remedies and their indications; Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy, Anthroposophic Text Study; Inner Path Work Subsidiary Exercises & Three Stage Karma Exercise.
Module 5 OCT 2nd - 9th 2026 at Emerson College | Mistletoe Plant Study Fever; Cancer & Viscum treatment; Inner Path Work - Destiny Learning.
Module 6 FEB 5th - 12th 2027 at Emerson College | Plant Study; Anthroposophic Paediatrics -with Dr Karen Michael; Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives; Anthroposophic Nursing; Inner Path Work – Eightfold Path.
Module 7 MAY 8th - 15th 2027 at Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin | Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension, Nephrology, Rheumatology (Dr. Matthias Girke); Respiratory Medicine (Christian Grah); Hepatology & Covid (Harald Mattes); Obstetrics & Midwifery (Angela Maaser & Midwife).
Module 8 JUL 9th - 16th 2027 at Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study; Endocrinology with Prof David Martin; Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles; Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle; Introduction to Biodynamis Agriculture; Practical Anthroposophic Pharmacy.
Module 9 OCT 1st - 8th 2027 (TBC) at Clinic Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, – Michael and Raphael Schools – Marion Debus & Karin Michael; Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute; Neurology (Freidwart Elsas); Meeting Patients from Arlesheim Clinic with (Philipp Busche).
Apply for the Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund
The fund is open to any doctor from all over the world in financial need who has been offered a place to study in the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine at Emerson College.
The Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund grants one award to the successful applicant towards tuition fees and accommodation (if needed) for the duration of their programme of study.
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