A Transformative Journey

Certification in Anthroposophic Medicine

A three-year progressive journey designed to transform how you understand health, relate to patients, and apply therapeutic care in your practice.

Year 1 - Build a new foundation for understanding the human being

Year 2 - Bring anthroposophic medicine more fully into your clinical practice

Year 3 - Develop a more integrated and individualized approach to healing

Core learning components

Summer conferences

  • Expanded interdisciplinary learning and advanced exploration of anthroposophic medicine and therapeutics

Fall retreats

  • Immersive experiential learning focused on observation, artistic work, collegial exchange, and clinical integration.

Mentorship

  • Individual and group mentoring to support integration into clinical practice.


Online learning

  • Foundational lectures and webinars completed throughout the year.

The full 3-year program, when taken alongside the overlapping 2-year Clinical Mentoring Program, meets the requirements for certification in Anthroposophic Medicine.

Path to certification

Flexible entry

Anthroposophic medicine is often discovered not as a planned career track, but as an answer to questions that emerge over time in clinical practice. Flexible entry points allow practitioners to begin where they are and deepen their engagement as the work becomes increasingly relevant to their patients and professional path.

Inquire about our flexible enrollment

Key certification outcomes

  • Establish a doctor-patient relationship based on dialogue, in which you perceive the patient as an individuality in his/her particular social environment

  • Establish a differentiated evaluation of the bodily, vital, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions (also called the human fourfold nature)

  • Take into account the spiritual dimension of the human being in the treatment plan and where appropriate, possible and desired also discuss this with the patient

  • Treat the most common diseases encountered in general and specialist practice by means of or including Anthroposophic medications and therapies, and accompany, evaluate and adapt the therapy to the course of the illness

  • Develop a connection with nature and the cosmos, as well as with the substances at the origin of important Anthroposophic medications 

  • Explain the scientific foundations and research methods of Anthroposophic Medicine and independently search the Anthroposophic-medical literature

  • And more

Inquire now about Fall enrollment

Year 1 – Developing a New Understanding of the Human Being

The Threefold Organization & Tria Principia

Introduction to the foundational anthroposophic perspectives on the human being and healing process through the study of the threefold human being and the Tria Principia.

Includes:

  • Fall retreat: 

    • Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Body

  • Summer conference:

    • [TBD]

  • Online Courses & Webinars

    • [List]

  • Foundational Study

  • Collegial Learning Community.

Year 2 – Deepening Clinical Understanding Through Nature and Therapeutics

A Fourfold View of the Human Being Through the Elements & Kingdoms of Nature

Explore relationships between the human being, the natural world, and anthroposophic therapeutic approaches through the study of the fourfold human being, the elements, and the kingdoms of nature.

Includes:

  • Fall retreat: 

    • [TBD]

  • Summer conference:

    • [TBD]

  • Online Courses & Webinars

    • [List]

  • Foundational Study

  • Mentorship

  • Collegial Learning Community

Year 3 – Integrating Rhythms, Development, and Individualized Care

Sevenfold & Twelvefold Perspectives of the Human Being and Cosmos

Explore relationships between human development, rhythms, and individualized care through sevenfold and twelvefold perspectives of the human being and cosmos.

Includes:

  • Fall retreat: 

    • [TBD]

  • Summer conference:

    • [TBD]

  • Online Courses & Webinars

    • [List]

  • Mentorship & Case-based learning

  • Collegial Learning Community

  • Certification preparation

Certification in Anthroposophic Medicine: Process and Criteria

The following credentials can earn Certification in Anthroposophic Medicine through PAAM:

  • Medical doctors (MD) (U.S. and Canada)

  • Osteopathic doctors (DO)

  • Nurse practitioners (NP)

  • Physician assistants (PA)

The following credentials can earn Certification in Anthroposophic Medicine through the Society for Physicians of Anthroposophic Naturopathy:

  • Naturopathic doctors (ND) (U.S. and Canada)

Additional ACAM criteria are as follows:

  1. The applicant shall be licensed to practice medicine as an MD/DO, NP, or PA within the United States, or licensed as an MD in Canada.

  2. The applicant shall be of high moral and ethical standards and be in good standing in the general medical and Anthroposophic communities.

  3. The applicant shall be committed to the ongoing development of the knowledge and practice of Anthroposophic medicine.

Download the PAAM Certification Criteria
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Apply for Certification in Anthroposophic Medicine

  • PAAM Anthroposophic Medicine Certification

    For the following credentials:
    Medical doctors (MD) (U.S. and Canada)
    Osteopathic doctors (DO)
    Nurse practitioners (NP)
    Physician assistants (PA)

    Download PAAM Application

  • Society for Physicians of Anthroposophic Naturopathy (SPAN) Certification

    For the following credentials:
    Naturopathic doctors (ND) (U.S. and Canada)

    Contact SPAN