Course for Young Doctors consists of eight lectures given at Christmas 1923, and five lectures given at Easter in 1924. For Rudolf Steiner it was to be a course on the humanizing of medicine. As such it is completely different in content and spirit from all other lectures he gave on the medical arts.

The course was brought about as a result of requests by medical students in late 1923 to Dr Steiner to have a series of lectures which didn't just emphasis anatomy, physiology and therapeutic details. These students wanted something that addressed the inner nature of the physician as a healer, something that spoke to the moral feeling that inspires a physician to his or her calling and relates the healing vocation to the needs of humanity.

The lectures are wide-ranging and comprehensive, and include meditative contemplations and instructions for deepening the art of healing to aid students and young physicians in their vocational development.

Also included are "The Bridge Lectures," three lectures given Dec. 17-19, 1920, which were recommended by Rudolf Steiner as preparation for this course.