Augment your Functional Medicine knowledge with IFM eLectures. Earn CME and update your knowledge on cutting-edge medical topics. This eLecture package is 3.25 hours. To earn CME credit, you must complete a pre-course and a post- course survey, as well as achieve 80% or higher on the post-course test within 3 attempts. Expert speakers frame each individual topic.

Cultivate Balance With Patients: Technology, Coaching, and Lifestyle

What can you do to promote healthy living for your patients? This package of CME eLectures centers on the theme of cultivating and nurturing healthy balance in patient lives. In these three eLectures, you will learn how to incorporate everyday technology, a coaching-style relationship, and fundamental lifestyle factors to increase patient engagement, change behavior, treat disease, and improve patient lives. Integrating any or all of these simple strategies in your healthcare practice will enhance patient-centered efforts to improve patient responsibility and increase overall health and well-being. The eLectures included are:

“The Fundamental Nature of Movement and Rest”
Mark Hyman, MD

Mark Hyman, MD

The Functional Medicine approach seeks the cause of disease by addressing underlying antecedents and root mediators. Often disease occurs when fundamental lifestyle factors like diet, movement, rest, and/or sleep are lacking or imbalanced in an individual’s life. In this presentation, Mark Hyman, MD, suggests that these lifestyle factors are not just the cause, but the treatment of disease, as well. When disease is present, practitioners should primarily treat with sleep, diet, movement, or rest. Accordingly, Hyman provides scientific research on how these fundamental treatment methods improve patient health.


“Technology and the Functional Medicine Practitioner”
Steve Feyrer-Melk, MEd, PhD

Steve Feyrer-Melk, MEd, PhD

Forecasted to hit nearly $3 billion in sales in 2016 and $6 billion in 2018,¹  the wearable technology market is booming. Depending on the device, wearable technology tracks heart rate, calories, body temperature, sleep patterns, posture, allergens, and more. In this presentation, Steve Feyrer-Melk, MEd, PhD, explains how practitioners who take advantage of the data this technology yields will increase patient engagement and change behavior.



“Creating Balance: Behavior Change Strategies to Support Optimal Movement and Restoration Practices”
Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD

Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD

One of the main challenges any health care worker confronts is motivation and change in their patients. Research shows that while practitioners probably find it useful to be the “expert” in acute care, they are more successful when they perform as a coach when treating chronic disease and behavior.² Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD, demonstrates the benefits of the coach approach when counseling patients about modifying lifestyle factors. She introduces a five-step coaching model for partnering with patients and identifies the psychological theories and scientific evidence supporting the coach approach.


Important Information:

Release Date: Dec 30, 2016 Last Reviewed Date: Dec 30, 2016 Termination Date: Dec 30, 2019

• The Institute for Functional Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• Your eLecture will be delivered electronically to your online account directly upon purchase.
• The eLecture is provided as a streaming and downloadable video along with downloadable slides and optional mp3 audio files to take on the go.
• Recordings will be available to both stream and download for one full year from your date of purchase.

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