The Institute for Functional Medicine complies with the Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The full text of those standards may be downloaded at www.accme.org. Relevant sections of the standards include the following requirements:

Accredited providers [e.g., IFM] are responsible for the content, quality and scientific integrity of all CME activities certified for credit. Identification of continuing medical education needs, determination of educational objectives, and selection of content, faculty, educational methods and materials is the responsibility of the accredited provider. Similarly, evaluation must be designed and performed by the accredited provider.

In designing educational activities, the accredited provider must assure that the activities have the following characteristics: They must be free of commercial bias for or against any product. If the activities are concerned with commercial products, they must present objective information about those products, based on scientific methods generally accepted in the medical community.

The design and production of educational activities shall be the ultimate responsibility of the accredited provider. Commercial supporters of such activities shall not control the planning, content or execution of the activity.