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Why Get Certified?

Validate your competence and knowledge of functional medicine

Earning a credential helps you achieve four key goals: credibility, patient safety, confidence, and respect.

Credibility

Functional medicine certification validates that practitioners have specialized knowledge and skill in functional medicine. Certification makes a difference - to patients who want qualified, knowledgeable clinicians; to employers who want skilled and experienced staff; and to individual practitioners who want to demonstrate their knowledge, competence, and commitment to functional medicine.

Patient Safety

Earning a professional certification confirms you are competent and possess the knowledge and skills to effectively evaluate patients’ health concerns as well as safely design and deliver individualized health interventions to meet their unique needs based on functional medicine principles and practices.

Confidence

After being assessed via an evidence-based functional medicine exam, you'll have the confidence to help patients achieve their goals within your scope of practice. It's imperative that your patients - and more importantly, you - feel confident in your abilities to guide them through safe and effective therapies that address their primary health concerns.

Respect

Earning a professional certification shows patients, colleagues, and employers that you have the discipline and commitment to invest in yourself by getting certified. By earning and maintaining a functional medicine certification, you demonstrate that you are a competent and credible source for optimizing health through functional medicine.