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.
The training leads to International Certification as an Anthroposophic Physician (for doctors) and a Diploma in Anthroposophic Medicine.
Internationally accredited by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.
Please see the programme below for the dates of each module.
TO APPLY:
Please click on the ‘APPLY NOW’ button, fill out the online application form and upload the required supporting documents.
You can view the entry requirements, supporting documents and application information at the bottom of this page or by clicking here.
If you have any pre-application questions please email Chiara Carones registrar@emerson.org.uk. Please note accommodation and meals are priced separately – details of how to book these will be available shortly.
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.
The English Training In Anthroposophic Medicine is a part-time post-graduate training for physicians.
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.
The course is designed for registered medical practioners but a few places will be open to other health care professionals with a training comparable to doctors’ trainings such as osteopaths, chiropractors and pharmacists.
Below you will find details of all nine modules: the dates, locations and the themes.
Face-to-Face participation is encouraged throughout the course.
(please note this relates to an earlier version of the course, the 2025 version will be available shortly)
Module 1: 2pm on Saturday 4th October until lunch time on Sunday 12th October 2025
Venue: Emerson College
Module 2: 2pm on Saturday 7th February to lunch time on Saturday 14th February 2026
Venue: Emerson College
Module 3: 2pm on Friday 1st May to lunch time on Friday 8th May 2026
Venue: Emerson College
Module 4: 2pm on Friday 3rd July to lunchtime on Friday 10th July 2026
Venue: Emerson College
Module 5: 2pm on Friday 2nd October to lunch time on Friday 9th October 2026
Venue: Emerson College
Module 6: 2pm on Friday 5th February to lunch time on 12th February 2027
Venue: Emerson College
Module 7: Saturday 8th May to Saturday 15th May 2027
Venue: Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin
Module 8: Friday 9th July to 16th July 2027
Venue: Trigonos Snowdonia UK
Module 9: Friday 1st October to Friday 8th October 2027
Venue: Klinik Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland
We know it’s not easy funding your studies, and we work hard to provide as many opportunities as possible for you to apply for additional support when you’re accepted to study for a course at Emerson College.
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 accomodation (if needed) for the duration of their programme of study.
We are recommend that participants arrive late afternoon on the day before to the start and leave the morning after the end of the each module.
i.e./ For the first module: arrive between 4-6pm on Friday 27th Jan with the option of staying on Sunday night and leaving on Monday 6th Feb in the morning. For subsequent modules, we are recommending participants arrive on a Saturday late afternoon, the module will finish the following Saturday evening at 9pm, with most participants saying over to Sunday morning.
The course requires an intermediate level of digital literacy. The use of the following apps and programmes is required: WORD for essay writing, ZOOM for online lessons, Web navigation for use of the Emerson Portal and Google Drive for sharing of assignments.
Induction on how to use the Emerson Portal and Google Drive will be offered. However, participants are responsible for checking that they have the minimum digital skills and knowledge required by the course.
The training leads to International Certification as an Anthroposophic Physician (for doctors) and a Diploma in Anthroposophic Medicine.
The written work includes three essays based on themes of the training and three written case histories are required in order to gain International Certification as an Anthroposophic Physician.
Most modules take place at Emerson College, England, situated fifteen miles by road from London’s International Gatwick Airport. Located in an area of natural beauty, with immediate walking access to an organic medicinal herb garden and biodynamic horticulture and farm, this internationally renowned College and research centre also provides on-site residential accommodation for course participants.
In addition, two modules take place in specialist departments within anthroposophical hospitals in Germany and Switzerland and at the Goetheanum. These include Havelhohe Hospital in Berlin and Clinic Arlesheim in Switzerland founded by Dr Ita Wegman. The German anthroposophic hospital has all the specialities associated most general hospitals and many of the specialist clinicians will be involved in teaching these modules.
The final module is planned to take place at Trigonos, Snowdonia, North Wales. This is close to Penmeanmawr, a druid stone circle where Dr Ita Wegman had conversations with Rudolf Steiner, which were seminal to the development of Anthroposophic Medicine and the General Anthroposophical Society.
Course fees can be paid upfront or via a payment plan as follows:
Option 1: £8000 (£700 deposit plus £7,300) if paid upfront at time of acceptance.
Option 2: £8200, with a payment plan of £700 deposit and three equal payments of £2,500.
– 1st Payment by 1st August 2025 or at time of acceptance if later than 4th August 2025.
– 2nd Payment by 15 June 2026
– 3rd Payment by 15th March 2027
*Includes materials but excludes accommodation, meals and travel costs.
Doctors from all over the world applying for this course who otherwise unable to afford the full course fees to attend the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine at Emerson College, may be eligible for support from the
Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund
Award of a scholarship will depend on both the course and the applicant meeting the criteria detailed below, on the number of applicants and the available funds. Prioritisation will also depend on eligibility for other available and relevant scholarship schemes.
Please click below for more information.
A small number of bursaries are also available. However they need to be agreed before enrolling into the course. Once invoiced for the course, we will not be able to offer bursaries or payment plans any longer.
For further information, please contact Chiara Carones at registrar@emerson.org.uk
To complete your application you will need to prepare the following documents:
You will also need to provide contact details for someone you would chose to be your emergency contact, should you be accepted onto the course.
To apply, please click on the ‘APPLY’ button at the top of the page, fill out the online application form and upload the documents listed above in the ‘Supporting Documents’ section.
If you have any questions please contact Chiara Carones – registrar@emerson.org.uk