The medical-agricultural academic year (MeLaS)
A Pre/Inter/PostMed with nature and health expertise in cooperation with the Dottenfelder Hof in Bad Vilbel and the Professional Association of Preventologists e.V.
Global challenge for health and climate: Agriculture needs concepts to feed people without destroying the soil and life. Medicine is also undergoing a paradigm shift. Current degree programmes in medicine and agriculture are not really geared towards the health of all life. Students do not learn to recognise and assess whether soil, plants, animals and people are healthy, nor how health can be promoted sustainably. In addition, there is a lack of genuinely prudent young people everywhere. Medical studies are biased towards cities and hospitals, although the future healthcare system is to become more ambulatory.
You are a doctor or want to become one and want to understand
- understand where health begins - and ends?
- develop a broader horizon during a gap year?
- deepen your understanding of nutrition, medicinal plants and the healing powers of nature?
- strengthen your ability to be autonomous in and with nature?
- develop your own health expertise?
- support people in better developing their health?
- deepen your knowledge of the interface between medicine and agriculture in a holistic way?
Then MeLaS is something for you!
Goals of the academic year
By obtaining a degree in Medical and Agricultural Studies (MeLaS), you will obtain a certificate in agriculture and the title of preventologist with certification as a health trainer recognised by health insurance companies.
Human health - the inner nature of people - is directly linked to their outer nature. In the future, the foundations of health must be sought in the inner human nature and the outer, human-designed cultural nature. The health of the microbiome in the gut is linked to the health of the living, healthy soil.
In this year, which is based on our own perception and actions and inspired by the latest technology, science and anthroposophy, we will explore the connections between living things.
Daily perception exercises in the field, practical work, lectures and seminar-style learning in groups with future doctors and farmers as well as life in a large farm community are what make this life study programme so special. Models for dealing with money, nature and community are explored and realised in practice.
Impressions of the Dottenfelder Hof
Topics of the academic year
- Scientific, medical and agricultural theory, research and practice with a view to their fundamental goals: healthy development of soil, microbes, fungi, plants, animals and humans. Training in the ability to observe and make judgements about illness and health in all fields.
- Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, chronobiology, endocrinology, pathology, learnt holistically from plants, animals and humans. Metamorphosis of plants and the animal and human skeleton as an introduction to the threefold structure of man, medicinal plant studies, pharmacy, projective geometry, astronomy.
- Composting - each farm as an individual organism. Context and differentiation skills. Metallurgy. Practical work in various arts and crafts. Bread baking. Holistic cooking.
- Conditions for personal development, resilience, logic, philosophy and spirituality. Technology. Money and community. Child and young animal development.
- Skills for preventive and health-promoting activities in the living environments and as a trainer for group-based health courses, development of personal and social health skills.
Further information and application
- With certificates in biodynamic cultivation and the title of preventologist.
- The training follows the international WHO benchmarks for training in anthroposophic medicine and health promotion, with corresponding credit points from the GAÄD Academy. Your certificate as a health trainer is recognised by health insurance companies.
- Additional income or scholarships possible.
Further information at: www.dottenfelderhof.de/landbauschule/jahreskurs/
Please send applications to:
Martin von Mackensen and Prof. Dr. med. David Martin, Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof, e-mail: lbs@dottenfelderhof.de
Visit us at Dottenfelder Hof, just 30 minutes from Frankfurt.
