GI Advanced Practice Module 2018 (APM)

Gastrointestinal (GI) Advanced Practice Module (APM) - Restoring Gastrointestinal Equilibrium: Practical Applications for Understanding, Assessing and Treating Gut Dysfunction is organized by The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and will be held from Oct 25 - 27, 2018 at JW Marriott Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event for Gastroenterologists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 17.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Course Description:
This Advanced Practice Module takes a whole systems approach to evaluate and treat not only the local gastrointestinal disease but many systemic diseases that are linked to GI dysfunction.

This course will supply you with the foundational background, insight, and in-depth clinical thinking to confidently work up and treat patients who may present with conditions, signs, and symptoms indicative of gastrointestinal dysfunction. We will discuss in detail the important laboratory evaluations to be considered, the appropriate clinical connections that must be made, and the treatment approaches that should be used.

Topics:
• Digestive Health
• Practice Implementation

Conference Objectives are :
• Identify the most important and reliable laboratory evaluations associated with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
• Evaluate the relationship between systemic disease and gastrointestinal dysfunction.
• Recognize and treat the most important antecedents and triggers of gastrointestinal dysfunction.
• Develop and organize individual treatment protocols using lifestyle, diet, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and botanicals.
• Understand and be able to implement an elimination diet.
• Reframe the patient’s story in the context of the Functional Medicine Matrix Model and a patient-centered assessment, incorporating the concepts of antecedents, triggers, and mediators.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.