If you are wondering why you should support IFM, or why IFM matters, we would say that IFM …

• Has the vision to develop and implement a program that can change how physicians practice, thereby improving patient outcomes.
• Brings world-renowned faculty, an international reputation, knowledge of how physicians learn, and programs available to all licensed healthcare practitioners to the healthcare community.
• Is the only ACCME-accredited provider of continuing medical education (CME) in functional medicine.
• Is dedicated to integrating science-based best practices of established and emerging care into an effective and cost-efficient approach to treatment that can be taught to practitioners and delivered to patients.
• Has an impressive track record: 10 years’ experience educating physicians and other healthcare providers in leading-edge prevention, assessment and management of complex, chronic disease.

Prospective donors may ask why they should invest in re-training physicians (relatively high earners) to practice functional medicine. It’s a good question and there are excellent reasons:

• Because patients need this care; medical schools and pharmaceutical companies do not provide the training, nor do they help to support it.
• Because there’s no other way to reverse the daunting rise in health care costs (fueled by the price of drugs and hospital-based care);
• Because there’s no other way to halt the alarming increases in complex, chronic disease (caused by lifestyle and environment); and
• Because that’s how we can change the healthcare system – by changing the way clinicians practice.