SAFM Code of Conduct
Last Updated: June 21, 2023
The SAFM Code of Conduct defines standards and guidelines we strive to uphold when it comes to the interactions of our students, graduates, staff, affiliates and partners. These principles are intended to support a healthy, encouraging, non-judgemental learning environment while positively influencing the many different health care settings in which we all serve others. This Code of Conduct applies no matter where or in what format engagement occurs during the term of your relationship with SAFM.
Community Engagement Commitments
Reporting and Addressing Violations
SAFM Company Why and Values
The SAFM team is committed to delivering quality and service in a way that fulfills our Company Why in alignment with our Company Values – a set of internal beliefs, ethics and guiding morals upon which we base every consideration, decision, and interaction related to our business. We expect all students and outside partners to aim for the same in the spirit of our mutual success and preservation of the SAFM brand.
Our Company Why:
The world is missing out on the full potential of so many brilliant people who Don’t Feel Well. We need a new branch of true health-care with an army of practitioners who are skilled in and passionate about proactive, preventive, patient-centric, personalized, systems-minded, root-cause medical science. By honoring and alleviating dis-ease, we minimize disease and make medicine affordable, but more importantly, we give back to the world the riches of all its peoples able to rise to their full potential.
Our Company Values: Available for download
Openness – Humility and Hunger to Learn (open to change, feedback, and continuous improvement).
Integrity – Consistently do the right thing, speak honestly about status, apologize where we fall short, and make amends promptly and positively.
Teaching – Empower through effective education, mentoring, and practice (not just quick solutions).
Ownership – Own full, high-quality resolution of all work, communication clarity, and attention-to-detail across boundaries and roles so that nothing falls in the cracks between us.
Service – Aim always for the highest good for each person we serve. Create a safe place for others to be authentic. Be Loving and Warm to everyone, always (this is truly our currency).
Refueling – Prioritize celebrating progress and affirming each other. Support each other in whole-life balance and fulfillment. Relax the mind and fill the heart continuously (only then can we deliver cutting-edge quality).
Rigor – We gather data efficiently and thoroughly. We ensure the content we deliver is validated, credible, and complete.
Courage – Commit to seeking and sharing truth and possibility regardless of its distance from the status quo and in a way that connects with and inspires an increasingly larger tribe to fulfill our mission.
Community Engagement Commitments
At SAFM, we take pride in gathering a community of health professionals building, operating, and heartfully evolving businesses under a common mission. The success of these members of our “tribe”, and the patients and clients they support, obligates you and each community member to the following commitments:
- Mutual Respect: We appreciate the uniquely individual people that comprise our SAFM community and the different views, ideas, and experiences each offer to our collective conversation on the future of healthcare. Be respectful, kind, civil, professional, and supportive. We don’t all have to agree. Political, religious, or other affiliation posts will be removed immediately.
- Patient/Client Focus: To maintain an environment of professionally focused, practitioner-to-practitioner exchange and support, engagement in any group community platform is reserved for professional queries about patient/client cases and is not for seeking guidance about your own personal or family/friends’ health challenges. For students and graduates, SAFM Custom Consultations are an ideal option to meet this need should you desire discussion beyond your own current healthcare practitioners.
- HIPAA Compliance: We adhere to the HIPAA Privacy Rule for the use of Protected Health Information (PHI) in the form of patient or client case studies by following due administrative and technical safeguards. When presenting patient or clients cases, you and all participants must comply with Privacy Rule standards by removing any personal identifying information (i.e., de-identifying) about a patient or client.
- Confidentiality: In the spirit of HIPAA Privacy Rule, you agree to treat all case information to which you may have access, as a result of being exposed to case studies or the practical clinical experience of other practitioners, as confidential. You agree not to share this information in any way with any other party or attempt to identify or contact any patient or client represented by any means.
- Professional Courtesy: You agree not to reproduce, share in any way with others, or use in any way for your own business gain any propriety information shared by other Program participants regarding specific business or marketing initiatives.
- Non-Solicitation: We have a zero-tolerance policy for solicitation. This includes solicitation of any type by any means, including but not limited to affiliate/bitly links, business ventures or any venture in which the promoter has any personal financial stake (e.g., supplement program, marketing program, nutritional program, job promotions or other educational program), distributing advertising materials, circulars or product samples, or engaging in any other conduct related to any outside business interests for profit or personal economic benefit. Any posts that solicit directly or indirectly will be removed, immediately, from any SAFM forum, online group, or other SAFM-hosted communication platform.
Sharing Feedback
At SAFM we are deeply committed to Openess as an SAFM value. Your perspective and voice are valued input to the way in which we learn, grow, and invest in not only your success but that of the broader SAFM community. While we offer students and graduates several formal opportunities to provide feedback during and after graduation from the SAFM Functional Medicine Training Program, we believe it’s important to provide a channel available for broad use across our offerings and outside of scheduled requests.
If you would like to share thoughts, questions, or ideas based on your SAFM experience, you may do so by emailing studentservices@schoolafm.com.
To best support you, we ask that you share any feedback be shared through the above channel and refrain from posting feedback in live webinars, group discussions or forums, chat threads, or via direct messaging of team members.
Reporting and Addressing Violations
If you have cause to report any violation of the SAFM Code of Conduct, you may do so by emailing studentservices@schoolafm.com.
SAFM takes any violation of the Code of Conduct seriously. Reports will be escalated to, reviewed, and responded to by the Director of Student Services. In the case that a review determines a violation has occurred, Purpose Inc reserves the right to determine a response appropriate with the severity of the violation and may take one or more of the following actions:
- Formal written warning.
- Removal of offending posts in group discussion platforms.
- Removal from group discussion platforms (temporarily or permanently).
- Meeting with an SAFM team member to discuss the violation.
- Dismissal of a Participant from an SAFM Program or offerings without refund or recourse.
- Removal of any rights to obtain or maintain the AFMC certification credential.
Related References
The company statements or policies listed below should be reviewed in support of your alignment with of the SAFM Code of Conduct.
