The Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology

More and more people are developing chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, mental disorders, and auto-immune diseases and they are not being appropriately treated by conventional doctors.

An effective Integrative Medicine doctor needs to be a great detective.  They want to get to the root cause of a symptom and they will use Functional Medicine methods to help solve the problem.

Functional medicine integrates conventional Western medical practices with what are sometimes considered “alternative” or “integrative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through nutrition, diet, and exercise; use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques (blood, urine, saliva and hair testing); and prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, or stress-management techniques.

This information is then used to treat the person holistically - mind, body and spirit.

For further information, a PDF document about functional medicine is provided by "The Institute for Functional Medicine" at this link: What is Functional Medicine

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The Master Clinician 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 will be on learning  how to think about medical and psychiatric disorders through biochemical and physiological investigations, rather than what to think (or fact gathering 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.

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)