Doctors' Training

Who or what is the human being? What do we understand by body, soul and spirit and in what way can we experience these dimensions of being human in ourselves? How can the phenomenon of being ill be understood and where can the forces of recovery be sought? In the course, the anthroposophical study of the human being is elaborated, in particular the so-called four members of the being, the functional tripartite structure and the corresponding individual constitutions and temperaments. In the clinical context, this expands our understanding of disease, which we develop on the basis of the major organ systems (intestine, heart, lungs, kidney, brain, liver, spleen). This results in a variety of new therapeutic approaches. In practice, anthroposophical anthropology finds its application in an expansion of anamnesis, diagnostic findings and diagnosis. In addition, an attempt is made to supplement the disease process with the psychosocial background and the individual biography of the patient.

The study of the kingdoms of nature, the four elements in connection with the cosmos, opens up a world full of healing substances and at the same time has a healthy effect on the student. Anthroposophical knowledge of nature can become the basis for the discovery of new remedies, thus complementing conventional concepts in an integrative way. In this strand, for example, plants are studied in small groups with regard to their possible therapeutic effects in nature and their pharmaceutical processing. This can be done particularly intensively during an entire "remedies week" in the Swiss mountains. Participants work with local medicinal plants on a daily basis and learn about pharmaceutical processing methods such as trituration, distillation and decoction on their own.

A humane medicine is based on the formation of interpersonal skills. In every encounter with our patients, skills of mindfulness, listening, compassion and conscious conversation are crucial. But also the work in the interdisciplinary-therapeutic team will be all the more healing, if the individual recognizes the points of view of the others and one supports each other. Socially, the social togetherness unfolds in the realization of a genuine health care system that focuses on the individual patient and sensibly aligns the various outpatient and inpatient offers, the financing and a sustainable health insurance system accordingly. This training strand aims to encourage reflection on and participation in shaping our health care system. A special focus is placed on the opportunities for interdisciplinary and integrative cooperation. and promote the training of interpersonal skills in the sense of heart medicine. Likewise, the self-reflection and the exchange of ideas among the participants should lead to the recognition of one's own scope of action and possibilities for action.

The medical profession always confronts us with the question of how to deal with illness, fate and death in a wholesome way. How to find the good here? How do I become a good doctor? In addition to the acquisition of professional knowledge and social competence, anthroposophic medicine opens up possibilities for the formation of inner abilities. Medical intuition in the sense of an increased ability to perceive and judge, an invigoration of feeling and an empowerment of the will for independent responsibility are central to this. They promote the inner freedom of the practitioner. The inner work on oneself is the focus of the first year of training, whereby the participants are given free impulses to occupy themselves with the exercises and meditations. In the second year of training the meditative deepening of medical and therapeutic contents is added. The more a person awakens to his or her own spiritual dimension, the more it can be experienced in the patient and become fruitful in diagnosis and therapy.