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The University of Witten Herdecke offers a postgraduate research program leading to the qualification of doctor rerum medicinalium for non-medical practitioners and doctor medicinalium for medical practitioners in the Faculty of Medicine. It also offers a dr. phil. qualification for those interested in non-clinical, aesthetic or philosophical themes through the Faculty of Fundamental Studies.

The entrance requirements are a University masters degree. The content of the work must be related to a therapeutic practice, which may be art therapy, dance therapy, music therapy, a complementary therapeutic approach, psychology or a social science or conventional medicine. We work in close co-operation with the doctoral program in Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, European PhD.

The work may be in German or English languages.

see guidelines for research applications  and  applying for a research study

Course co-ordinator is David Aldridge. David Aldridge has the Chair for Qualitative Research Methods in Medicine at the University of Witten Hedecke. His interests are medical anthropology, the meaning of illness, the delivery of health care in Western industrialised cultures and complementary medical approaches.