FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – June 7, 2022 – The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) released its highly anticipated 2020-2021 Annual Report showcasing critically important mission-driven work to empower confident and competent practitioners of functional medicine, advance health equity, increase access, and improve the overall delivery of patient care. This is the organization’s inaugural annual report and covers the impact and financial information for both 2020 and 2021.
“Collaboration is vital to the transformation of health care, and it is through our partnerships that we can create real change together,” states Amy R. Mack, MSES/MPA, IFM CEO. “We are proud to share along with our partners the incredible stories of impact through training practitioners in functional medicine, expanding access to functional medicine for practitioners and patients and supporting the functional medicine field in research and clinical patient care.”
- More than 110 military practitioners have completed IFM training, an additional 134 military members have taken our foundational course, and 89 more have become IFM certified practitioners.
- IFM’s Find a Practitioner database receives more than one million unique visitors per year.
- IFM awarded more than $1.66M in program scholarships, discounts, and tuition assistance, including a 50% reduced tuition student rate so that young medical professionals may begin their functional medicine curriculum alongside their academic and residency programs.
- In 2020 and 2021, IFM revenues exceeded expenses despite the unprecedented challenges faced, further demonstrating the increasing demand for functional medicine education and training.
Functional medicine provides practitioners with a framework to deliver a deeper level of care that not only addresses complex chronic conditions, but guides patients towards a higher expression of health and well-being. During 2020 and 2021, safety measure related to COVID-19 required necessary adjustments to the work of the organization. IFM leaned into the disruptive changes in the healthcare landscape and leveraged those challenges as an opportunity to broaden and increase access, education, and training. IFM became, and continues to be, a trusted resource for evidenced-based information to address conditions related to the SARS-CoV-2 infection and reaffirmed its role in providing the gold standard in functional medicine education and training.
This first ever report also demonstrates IFM’s transformational work through collaborations, highlighting partnerships with academic institutions, large health systems, Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense. Through this work, functional medicine access is being integrated into a greater number of clinics, academic medicine settings, and vulnerable and medically underserved communities than ever before.
IFM is creating transformational change in health care for individuals around the globe. Learn more about the organization’s impact and read the full annual report at IFM's Impact.
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