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Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘Integrating the Impact of Functional Medicine into Managed Care: We Must Begin!‘ You’ll walk away with inspiration and ideas you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:
- What got us here Before is holding us back Now. How the functional medicine movement Must Change to avoid becoming an irrelevant niche.
- Functional labs are nice, but conventional labs are often enough. Are you maximizing their value?
- Yes, FM has a branding problem. Are you perfectly positioned to be a major part of the solution?
- Why Efficiency is the watch word for the future of functional medicine.
- Branching out beyond the one-on-one care model – great for patients and (surprisingly?) financially viable for the practitioner too.
- Yes, your time is limited. Highly limited. But Maximizing the Impact of your patient appointment actually depends on what happens outside of it.
- “Infiltrating” conventional care with the power of Functional Medicine involves as much art as science.
- The most important practitioner mindset shift to dramatically change clinical outcomes.
- The multimodality collaboration that will make All the Difference in the future of health care transformation.
After you watch, please share your thoughts below in the “Ask a Question” area about what inspired You in this presentation. Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.
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30 Questions for “Integrating the Impact of Functional Medicine into Managed Care: We Must Begin!”
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Hope Gunn says:
Amazing and inspiring presentation. I have long felt collaborative practice with multiple modalities is the answer to achieving and sustaining wellness. Your permission to acknowledge the fear of being a solo practitioner and the possibility of incorporating functional medicine into a managed care model was so encouraging. So many possibilities! Thank you so much.
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Kristen Knopp says:
Thank you so much Tracy for your support and enthusiasm today! I am a Nurse Practitioner in Maine working actively now towards a space where I can run my own practice. I am inspired by the vision which includes all different options for a practice “that makes your heart sing” and that allows us to all take care of ourselves. I love prioritizing a life that allows us to show up with more strength and light for those we wish to serve. I am thinking more now about how to run a group model in my practice! I also want to collaborate with my colleagues to tap in to specialized knowledge. As with most of us, my local population will need to have a more affordable approach to have the greatest reach. Exciting times for sure!
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JENNIFER HANNA says:
I appreciate Tracy’s passion to provide access to functional medicine to everyone. The thought of group visits is exciting. I look forward to learning more via the clinical webinars!
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Jan Mullen says:
Each time I listen to you talk Tracy , there is always a few pearls of wisdom , this time there was am ocean of pearls 😂your energy and enthusiasm and attention to detail is totally inspiring so I’m going to keep my thoughts really simple for ease as your energy Is totally enthusiastic. I will be rewatching this so I can pull the threads together and make bullet points so that I can start to pull this together for my community which is one of the most under deprived areas in the UK / Europe . Listening to you talk today affirmed that I’m on the right track and now it’s looking at how to be as efficient and effective as possible , there are people in my community who are looking for change and have begun to come together, so that we can share ideas etc . I’m going to bring what I’ve learnt here to the table and then invite others to join me together we can move mountains.
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Amanda Thornton says:
Thank you Tracey, I am a RN and now newly qualified health coach working in a cardiology practice where the standard model of care is practiced. Every time I think I have made a small breakthrough, out comes the standard model of believing “the patients want an easy solution, they don’t want to change habits & lifestyle”. When are we going to see that on a patients prescription?
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Karina Brandtönies says:
Dear Tracy,
Thank you for emphasizing the importance of:
EMBRACING THE COLLABORATION!
That is my focus right now! And I am loving all the
colors that we can add onto the healing process
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Adejumoke Ladejobi says:
Thank you Tracy, for touching on the pain point of myself and many clients. I am a health coach and the idea of Group Coaching inspired me a great deal and in three ways:
1. Group coaching makes the work easier and helps us be more efficient. Rather than teach the same things to different people, I can do so in a group setting, saving more time and having a community where clients can be role models to one another. I can make my teachings into videos and repurpose to suit the need.
2. Multimodality collaboration is such a great idea as it will remove overwhelm. This is so huge.
3. The third point is one, I find truly powerful. In today’s world, where there is an increase in food and fuel prices, clients barely have disposable income to take care of themselves and work has become really slow. With group coaching, they are able to pay just about half the regular cost. This enables us {practitioners) to stay in business and still be able to help our clients. And yes, paying our SAFM school fees, comes easier. Group coaching, here I come… Woohoo!!
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Robert Johnston says:
Thank you Tracy for bringing my dream for over four decades to having all healthcare practitioners working together to restore health in every participate (patient, client, costumer) that we are treating. Our strength comes from our TRIBES ability to form a life time educational consortium that shares and accepts knowledge that makes the world a healthier place. Our PEARL to accept this challenge gives me goose pumps! As a Chiropractor, Homeopath, Rife Frequency Therapist, Darkfield Microscopist, Orthomolecular Nutritionist,Nutritional college teacher, Classical and Auricular Acupuncturist and practicing Functional Medicine with Jeffery Bland as my mentor since the early 1980’s. I was a perfect example of every healthcare profession that the powers controling orthodox medicine wished would disappear from participating in reducing their potential profits. Functional Medicine will be targeted and censored just as all competetors have for over a century! With hundreds of thousands of heathcare practitioners being punished throughout our planet for not being compliant; we have our first opportunity to form a heathcare system with Functional Medicine as an important contributor to restoring a healthy planet!
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Stacie Hoffmann says:
Tracy,
Thank you so much for your insights into ways to integrate FM into conventional managed care systems and why this is critical for transforming health care and helping our patients be/stay well. Thank you for reinforcing the importance of setting boundaries and also helping me to see that you can be successful without giving up everything that you have built prior to seeing the light through FM lens.
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Hi Tracy!
This couldn’t come at a better time for me! I am a certified practitioner (IFMCP) that is a pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy in upstate New York. I got certified during covid, and my goal was always to see patients in groups after learning at IFM from Terry Wahls. Covid put a halt to my plans since anything in groups was difficult and not really accepted at it’s peak. I felt that many of the patients I see weren’t as open to learning by zoom, and I enjoy the in-person connection much more as well. Today I am posting on our pharmacy’s facebook page that I am going to begin group consultations! I haven’t figured out exactly how I’m going to do this yet, but I am taking a leap of faith inspired by you!
Thanks for all you do!