Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology - Functional Medicine Training For Doctors, Psychologists, Dentists, Practitioners, Chiropractors, Health & Wellness Professionals – A Live, Online Functional Medicine Educational Program

The Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology

The Certification Program™ provided by The Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology is an educational, webinar-based  program which focuses on functional medicine testing and treatment strategies as it relates to all healthcare disorders with a special focus on the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric and psychological disorders. The program is offered to healthcare practitioners and health coaches.  The emphasis of the curriculum will be on learning how to think about medical and psychiatric disorders through biochemical and physiological investigations, rather than on what to think or simply learning and memorizing facts, which is a more conventional approach to learning about healthcare matters. The primary course objective will be to establish a new way of thinking about medical and psychiatric disorders. Once participants begin to appreciate the wisdom of investigating the unique, root, biochemical causes of suffering in each patient, they may never be satisfied with guessing (i.e., “If you don’t test, you’ve guessed”). This exciting paradigm shift can refresh one’s career as every patient approached in this way can teach us new information if we are willing to investigate the underlying, scientific basis of their suffering.

NOTE: Join On-going Classes Now

Next Module starting January 17th

This is a "live" webinar-based program and you will be able to interact with the instructor(s) and classmates

(All sessions are recorded and you can work at your own pace)

What is Functional Medicine and How Does It Integrate Into and Potentiate Conventional and Alternative Medicine?

Modern medicine has made astonishing advances in the treatment of acute healthcare problems, but increasingly healthcare consumers suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, addictions, depression, anxiety and auto-immune diseases. While many tools to address chronic health problems are in the doctor’s toolbox, Functional Medicine offers a whole set of specialized technologies to assist practitioners in getting to the root biochemical causes of these chronic problems.

Because of Functional Medicine, healthcare practitioners and consumers alike can now relegatepalliative models of treatment (i.e., treating only the symptoms of chronic medical and psychiatric problems) to treatments of last resort instead of treatments of first resort.  Because of Functional Medicine, healthcare practitioners have a new treatment of first resort which is potentially curative, because it addresses the underlying risk factors of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders, the nutritional, metabolic, toxicological, immune and epigenetic problems which amassed scientific studies strongly suggest are causative or serious exacerbating factors of all chronic medical and psychiatric disorders.

Functional Medicine also integrates into and potentiates all conventional Western medicine and CAM (complementary/alternative medicine) practices by creating a scientific rationale for prevention through nutrition, diet, lifestyle changes, stress-management techniques and exercise; for the use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques (blood, urine, saliva, stool and hair testing); and for prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets and detoxification programs.

The critical and potentially curative, biochemical information provided by the Functional Medicine, is the long-awaited, missing “body” component in the holistic model of mind, body, energy and spirit treatment, which lays the critical, science-based, physical and sustainable foundation for the mind/energy/spirit approaches to actually work.

Review this article: Functional Medicine is a Third Kind of Medicine

Educational Program

 The primary text book which is included in the 'full" course fee isLaboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine by Richard S. Lord and J. Alexander Bralley. ($200 value)

Over 3800 citations make this book your evidence-based resource for the biochemical basis of chronic illness. A must-have desk reference for laboratory testing associated with nutritional and metabolic medicine.

This 2nd Edition publication includes:

 You may review the text book on-line>>  Laboratory Evaluations

"Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine is a giant contribution to the field of 21st century medicine. It provides a well-researched roadmap to aid practitioners in evaluating disease along the continuum from pre-clinical biochemical and metabolic dysfunction to full blown clinical symptoms and disease. It is an essential reference for clinicians seeking to practice the medicine of the future today."Mark Hyman, MD

The Metametrix Handbook is a clinical reference manual that can help with interpretation of test results, development of treatment plans for patients, identification of possible causes of symptoms and conditions, and more. This pocket guide is a must-have companion to the in-depth Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine 2nd edition textbook.

 Review this article: Functional Medicine is a Third Kind of Medicine

Join On-Going Classes Now

(You do not have to start at Module 1)

 Overview of Course

1) Weekly training webinar with powerpoint presentation

• Didactic training using Laboratory Evaluations book mentioned above
• Case presentations and discussions
• Access to previously recorded Academy webinars

2) Prerequisite education with testing (optional) to see if material is mastered

• Chapter 1 in Laboratory Evaluations text book
• Basic Concepts in Integrative, Complementary & Alternative Medicine book (CE Gant)
• Webinar on Intro to Functional Medicine

3) Monthly "public" webinars on various health topics & access to some previously recorded webinars

4) Monthly private webinars on lifestyle issues

5) Ability to test your patients whether or not you have a license to order testing

6) other benefits covered in the course

BONUS

* Current paying members of the Academy are eligible to be a part of the Roundtable which will be discussing case studies every month starting in August 2011.

 Program Fees (for "Live" Webinar)    

1 Module = 6 weeks = $797.50 (similar to 1 Chapter in textbook)
(Register now and only pay $399 – a 50% savings!)

12 Modules = 72 weeks @ $597.50 per Module = $7170 Total
(Monthly payment option: Register for entire course and only pay $266 month)

 Link to pay the $266 monthly fee:  Monthly Payment Option

Access to "pre-recorded" Modules are available for $400 each.

For more information – Phone: 888-632-6938

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