Today, I want to answer the question of how long should it take to integrate functional medicine. It’s a question I hear so much from busy practitioners who are considering going the functional medicine route.
There are really two areas to look at here. One area is the clinical side. The second is the business aspect of integrating functional medicine.
The history
Here’s a little history first. When our team learned functional medicine, it was really learning functional medicine 5-10% at a time through weekend seminars which were 3-6 months apart. How long did it take us to integrate functional medicine? It took a long time. It took 3-4 years to understand all the fundamentals. That didn’t mean that we didn’t start using functional medicine right away, but there was a lot of difficulties, a lot of struggles and blood along the way because we didn’t have all the information to start. We had to gain the information we needed in bits and pieces over months and years as we went along.
Informational training
We learned through an informational program. There are many similar programs out there that can take anywhere from 18 months to 4 years before you’re really ready to integrate functional medicine. It often takes that amount of time to gather all the information plus get the confidence to start with a patient and get results.
There is a difference between integrating functional medicine and integrating it and getting great outcomes. Big, big difference.
In this video, I’m discussing:
- Why if you don’t get your clinical and business structures right, it can suck the life out of you.
- How important it is to get the business structure right to create a sustainable functional medicine practice from the beginning.
- The functional medicine training model that is really helping practitioners become competent in a very short amount of time
- How getting functional medicine practitioners into the game and getting great outcomes is a win-win for everybody.
- Why it is so difficult to go through a systemized approach getting information over a long period of time.
If you’re ready to integrate functional medicine through a transformational style of learning instead of just more information, I highly recommend this Functional Medicine Fast Track video:
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