At AFMCP, expert educators provide case-based, interactive presentations using real-world situations to model the use of a suite of new clinical tools. These tools help clinicians make more personalized assessments, design appropriate treatments to address each patient’s unique combination of history, genetics, and lifestyle, and guide patients through the sometimes difficult process of making sustainable lifestyle changes that lead to better outcomes. Integrating the simple strategies of modifiable lifestyle factors in a healthcare plan can help patients feel more empowered to take charge of their own health, thereby increasing overall health and well-being.

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Learn New Tools for Treating Common Conditions

Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice™(AFMCP) integrates the latest medical research with a model of care that accounts for each patient’s individual history, unique genetic makeup, and environmental and lifestyle factors. Many chronic diseases occur when fundamental lifestyle factors like diet, movement, rest, and/or sleep are lacking or mismatch with a patient’s genetic makeup. AFMCP shows clinicians how to design effective, personalized treatments for every patient.

A mutually empowering patient-practitioner relationship is a key element of the functional medicine model.

Insights and Research Discussed at AFMCP

Close up of a women holding a basket full of vegetables as she applies functional medicine and nutrition into practice

Improving Access to Functional Medicine Care

Delivering cost-effective collaborative care with tools such as group visits helps support health in underserved communities.

Closeup of a clock as a women dances ballet and uses functional medicine to improve her circadian rhythm in the background

Chronobiology & Circadian Medicine

The consideration of an individual’s regulatory clock genes and “chronotype” may help create a more personalized treatment.

Woman functional medicine doctor checking the ears of a male patient for hearing loss

Hearing Loss: Risk Factor for Dementia?

Hearing loss is a common condition affecting adults as they age. What is the connection between hearing loss and cognitive health?

Top view of a colorful and nutritious falafel salad, showing that nutrition as a functional medicine intervention

Connections Between Leaky Gut and Arthritis

Research suggests that gut dysbiosis may contribute to the pathology of some rheumatic diseases.

Close up of two people preparing fresh food as they apply nutrigenomics and functional medicine into practice

Nutrigenomics: Personalizing Diets

A person’s gene-nutrient interactions as well as variations of gut microbiome composition are informing new dietary therapies.

Man balancing in a yoga pose on a rock overlooking the ocean and using the polyvagal theory to help his PTSD

Understanding PTSD with Polyvagal Theory

Research on polyvagal theory and the autonomic nervous system is expanding care options for trauma & mental health concerns.

AFMCP provides so much useful information and tools regarding functional medicine and is led by practitioners with such an enormous wealth of knowledge. The online course is great and allows you to work at your own pace when your personal life schedule permits. I 100% enjoyed this course and would recommend it to any practitioner who is interested in true patient healing. I am looking forward to studying and utilizing all of the wonderful handouts in the toolkit. Thank you IFM for such an amazing course led by the best of the best.

AFMCP Online Attendee

2023

AFMCP provides a forward-thinking approach to health that applies functional medicine and patient care techniques to expand conventional practice. AFMCP has quality instructors with diverse clinical experiences, interactive demonstrations of content that take large concepts and break them down into an easy to understand information, and tools already written up to take the information to patients Monday morning. This is a great program!

AFMCP Online Attendee

2021

A great overview of many topics that really ignite the curiosity about looking at patients differently through the lens of functional medicine. Since the course I keep these tools at the forefront of my mind, and I can't wait to gain experience in implementing these tools.

AFMCP Online Attendee

2023

Connecting to our patients through functional medicine helps us empower them to become participants and advocate for healing. Watching such a fusion of science and art in medicine is fascinating. So if you want to be proactive, learn the tools of this modern 21st-century medicine.

AFMCP Online Attendee

2022

It is an amazing course to take because it opens your eyes to the importance of providing holistic care and taking a careful history. There are so many factors that can contribute to disease and dysfunction and we will most likely miss them if we don't take time to listen.

AFMCP Online Attendee

2022

Eye-opening course! You discover a new way to approach symptoms, treat patients as a whole person, dive into the deepest causes of their imbalances, and engage with them to discover ways to return to optimal health. Plus IFM offers an excellent toolkit for use in clinical practice.