Why do you require a healthcare license for certification eligibility?

Functional medicine is not standalone area of medicine and is reliant on conventional medical education and licensure to be able to see and treat patients. Earning the FMCP or FMCP-M designation is voluntary, and certification does not expand or reduce a practitioner’s scope of licensure, nor confer any additional legal or specialty status.

Practitioners can only apply their functional medicine education within the scope of their current healthcare license issued by the appropriate authority in the state, province, or country of their clinical practice.

It is incumbent upon practitioners of the program to understand their scope of licensure and apply functional medicine approaches according to the permissions and limitations of their existing licensure.

 Learn more about FMCP eligibility and FMCP-M eligibility requirements.