Anthroposophical medicine is practiced in 15 hospitals and by over a thousand doctors in outpatient services in Europe. In addition to the growing demand, anthroposophical medicine has also become a path for many who want to become medical doctors. The anthroposophical doctor strives to become a researcher, one who through an in-depth understanding of the human being and nature can arrive at the appropriate remedy during the meeting with the patient.  The trust that a patient brings when meeting a doctor can support one’s care for the patient and the desire to find a cure.  The profession can become a path of inner schooling for one’s own self-development, the fruits of which can be experienced in the meeting with patients.

Anthroposophical Medicine is a path for medical professionals to become doctors. Instead of becoming a tool by which externally determined standards are measured, the anthroposophical doctor would like to expand and deepen his or her scientific studies. The anthroposophical doctor strives to become a researcher, one who through an in-depth understanding of the human being and nature can arrive at the the appropriate remedy during the meeting with the patient. The profession can become a path of inner schooling for one’s own self-development, the fruits of which can be experienced in the meeting with patients.

1 | Full time course
The foundations of the understanding of the human being from an anthroposophical perspective are the focus of this course: the threefold nature and the elements of the human being in health, illness and therapy. The artistic exercises relating to the foundation courses (full time course), with the development of a sculptural-musical-speech understanding of the human being. One can apply for the full time course only as a whole unit.

2 | Practical training for doctor competencies
A practical training focusing on doctor consultations with patients, the art of compiling case histories and physical examinations based on the anthroposophical understanding of the human being. Attendance of practical training course is possible independent of full time course when prerequisites have been met.

3 | Clinical Weekend on Cancer Diseases
Therapy principles for patients at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Arlesheim / Switzerland are developed in teamwork.
The content of this course relates to themes from the foundation course (full time), however, it can be attended independent of full time course when required prior knowledge is of a sufficient level.

4 | Advanced Study of Man: The Path of the I into the Physical Body

The Rubicon of the 9th – 10th year as a threshold experience for the child. As civilization becomes more and more estranged from real life, it will become harder for children to incarnate in a healthy manner. Around the 9th-10th year, which are the Rubicon years, the child is especially reliant on the loving attention and understanding of the adult. In order to provide effective help for children at this age, it is is necessary for teachers, pediatricians, school doctors and therapists to have an exact understanding of what the child is experiencing. This workshop will follow on a daily basis the path of transformation experienced by the child. The sculptural-musical understanding of the human being will allow the student to experience the transformation of the child´s soul from instinctive imitation toward a loving integrated experience with the adult. The medical, pedagogical and psychology lectures will be followed by an in depth discussion based on participants questions.

Child Sexual Abuse. The study of the human being also provides the background for the understanding of child sexual abuse. With the help of experts Jochen Weidenbusch and Annette Junge-Schepermann, we will examine the ways to help children in need.

5 | Research

We supervise dissertations on themes relating to Anthroposophical Medicine in cooperation with:
the ARCIM Institute, Research Institute at the Filderklinik. Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine. Director – Dr. med Jan Vagedes in cooperation with Tübingen University.
University Witten-Herdecke. Gerhard Kienle Professorship for Medicine Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophical Medicine. Prof. Dr. Peter Heusser

Thomas McKeen (1953 – 1993) was an internal medicine specialist and senior physician at the Filderklinik in Stuttgart and was also a teacher of anthroposophical medicine. In 1987, Thomas McKeen founded the anthroposophical doctors seminar with support from the Board of  the Anthroposophical Doctors Association in Germany and the then director of the Internal Medicine Department at the Filderklinik, Dr. med. Jürgen Schürholz, and the Association of Anthroposophical Clinics in Germany. These two groups as well as the Academy Directorship are members of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. Later, this seminar was renamed the Eugen Kolisko Academy. Dr. Eugen Kolisko was an anthroposophical doctor and scientist (1893 – 1939).

Over the years, former participants of the seminar who had felt a strong connection with the work of the Seminar formed a fundraising association that has also helped to support the seminar.

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