Welcome,

The American Board of Functional Medicine provides three distinct services to the public. While functional medicine is a truly dynamic approach to healthcare, the ABFM has set out to provide educational standards and to certify the ability, knowledge and skill of physicians who practice in functional medicine.

Old Healthcare with a New Name - While the functional medicine community has taken advantage of many new approaches to diagnostic testing and nutritional research, the historical roots date back to the teachings of Hippocrates & Paracelsus.

The ABFM welcomes all the new Diplomates and Candidates...

There has never been a greater time for functional or integrative medicine than today. The healthcare system in America is broken. Our reliance on HMOs and pharmaceutical companies to dictate our quality and quantity of care has allowed us to steer away from the fundamentals of prevention and well-care to the rocky shores of sick care and reactive medicine. Many of us find ourselves treating based on what insurance will pay and not what the patient needs. Many of us find that insurance will not pay for our care until the patient becomes sick and frail. Many of us have found ourselves on this rocky shore within a sick-care model that boasts 1 out of 2 Americans dying of a heart attack; 1 out of 2 Americans dying of cancer; 1 out of 3 becoming diabetic; 1 out of 20 children having ADD/ ADHD; 1 out of 500 children having cancer. We watch as ninety-five percent of our patients die of only three diseases.

By earning your 300 hours of functional medicine & passing your Board exam, you will be among the nation's most qualified and educated. The desire for functional medicine education has skyrocked in the last twenty years with many "new" classes, seminars, retreats, and continuing education programs. Many of these programs provide superior quality functional medicine education, however, since there was no centralized Board, the public and physicians alike, have found a concern that not all doctors of functional medicine are adequately trained. The ABFM has set out to create a standard amoung the growing number of physicians with varying qualification.

We look forward to serving the public's best interest in providing the educational standards and testing that certify that your functional medicine physician is qualified.