Course overview

Sustainable lifestyle intervention is the cornerstone of long-term health, yet clinicians and patients often find lifestyle change difficult to implement. This interactive course with two patient cases provides functional medicine tools to effectively connect with patients and change their health outcomes.

Learning objectives

Earn up to 1.5 CME credits in approximately 1.5 hours with the following learning objectives.

  • Collect and interpret a thorough clinical history using the Functional Medicine Timeline with Antecedents, Triggers, and Mediators.

  • Differentiate between food allergy, food intolerance, and food sensitivity.

  • Select tests for and interpret results to recognize food allergy, food intolerance, and food sensitivity.

  • Recognize the many potential causes of depression.

  • Multifactorial analysis of depression symptoms in a particular case.

  • Synthesize information using the Functional Medicine Matrix to identify root cause and appropriate interventions.

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