Raoul graduated as a medical doctor in 1974 at Wits University, RSA, and followed a seven year postgraduate training in anthroposophically integrated clinics in Switzerland and Germany in general medicine, paediatrics, cancer therapy, nutritional therapy and psychiatry. This training also involved active involvement in therapeutic art, eurythmy, rhythmic massage and manufacture of natural medicine.

He is also trained in acupuncture, homeopathy, clinical nutrition and psychotherapeutic counselling and life coaching.

Since 1983, Raoul has been working in his holistic general practice as a practitioner of integrated medicine.