English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine

ABOUT THE COURSE

The English Training In Anthroposophic Medicine is a part-time post-graduate training for physicians.

The Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, Switzerland is working with the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine, to offer the fundamental UK and internationally based training in anthroposophic medicine in English for doctors and medical students worldwide. 

Faculty: Dr Michael Evans (course leader), Dr James Dyson, Dr Matthias Grike, Anna Hubbard, Prof. David Martin,  and Dr Marion Debus.

Ideal for physicians looking to:

• Learn new ways of observing and researching nature, medicinal plants, human anatomy and physiology,
• Develop a comprehensive perception of patients and illness that encompasses body, soul and spirit,
• Form a new relationship to medicines and their source materials through plant and mineral studies,
• Experience how art supplements science and widens understanding,
• Explore exercises and meditations that support the ethical and spiritual development of health care professionals on their personal development journey.

COURSE OVERVIEW

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.

MODULES INFO

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