Course

Therapeutic Food Plans: A Component of Personalized Nutrition (TFP)

Create dietary interventions that address disease and promote health

Online Cohort
Feb 24 - Apr 6, 2025
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Up to 6.5 CME/CE
$325.00
Membership discounts available

Course Overview

Is precision nutrition part of your clinical toolkit? Selecting therapeutic foods is a powerful tool for the prevention and management of several chronic conditions. In the Therapeutic Food Plans course, you’ll examine the role of nutrition within the functional medicine framework and learn how to fully customize a dietary intervention to effectively address each patient’s health concerns, dietary needs, and preferences. Through this course, clinicians will develop mastery over IFM’s suite of therapeutic food plans and be able to quickly and effectively design a personalized nutrition plan. Clinicians from all disciplines are encouraged to join the course, especially if they work closely with patients on nutrition. 

Developed in collaboration with the American Nutrition Association (ANA), TFP educates clinicians and nutrition professionals on the clinical applications of IFM’s suite of therapeutic food plans, including features, scientific rationale, customization, troubleshooting, and patient engagement tips. To help support patient engagement, you may also choose to bundle the Patient Education Series (PES). PES overviews features of each plan and is a helpful resource that patients can refer to at home.

6
Hours of on-demand content
6
week cohort
6.5
CME/CE credit max

Learning Objectives

In the TFP course, you will learn to:

  • Understand the importance of nutrition in the management of chronic conditions.
  • Compare the features and applications of IFM’s food plans.
  • Personalize IFM food plans based on dietary needs, preferences, and health goals.
  • Use IFM tools to identify dietary and lifestyle patterns contributing to a patient’s health.
  • Understand how diet and nutrition can improve health.

Piece together lifelong health with personalized nutrition

TFP teaches that nutrition is a building block to health, helping to prevent chronic conditions and optimize overall health and wellness.
Food are the building blocks of lifelong health

Food is energy, information, connection. Food is medicine.

As a frontline treatment, personalized nutrition can drastically improve health outcomes. Tuition for TFP includes access to a curated selection of over 50 downloadable patient education resources in IFM’s Clinical Toolkit as well as other benefits.
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A comprehensive course on therapeutic food plans and nutrition. A total game changer with templates and tools to create personalized food plans that cater to individual dietary goals."

— TFP Course Attendee, 2023

Pricing

The standard pricing of the program is reflected below. Please note that CME is available for an additional $40. Cancellations are subject to program cancellation fees.

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$325.00

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Group Rates*

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Recommended Course Pairing: Patient Education Series (PES)

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Patient Education Series

The Patient Education Series (PES) is a group of online video modules that guide patients through any of the IFM food plans and offer them support outside of the office visit. PES saves you time by explaining the food plans in-depth so you can focus on personalizing the plan to meet your patients' needs. If you regularly use IFM's food plans in practice, then PES is for you!
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Bundle Together & Save

PES can be bundled with the Therapeutic Food Plans course (TFP) at a discounted price, or purchased as a standalone resource. Please note that CME is not included in this pricing, but is available for an additional $40.
Therapeutic Food Plans (TFP)
$325.00
Patient Education Series (PES)
$125.00
TFP+PES Bundle
$450.00
$425.00

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Therapeutic Food Plans Overview

IFM food plans were designed to address specific areas of health and function.
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Engaging Patients in Nutritional Therapy

Specific factors, needs, and goals may influence a patient’s long-term adherence to a food plan.
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Personalizing Nutritional Interventions

Personalization helps create the most appropriate and effective wellness strategy for each patient.
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Course Elements

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Six Hours of Content

Over six hours of interactive modules including videos, case studies, quizzes, and patient-facing resources for each patient.
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Downloadable Course Materials

Cohort members who successfully complete the course have access to PDFs and other downloadable course materials for up to one year.
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Online Clinical Community Forum

Cohort members will have access to a private discussion group to network, debrief course concepts, ask questions, and share best practices.
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IFM’s Clinical Toolkit

Access to over 50 toolkit resources, including patient handouts and food plan recipes, is included for the duration of the 45-day cohort.

TFP Course Structure

TFP covers prevention strategies, nutritional interventions, nutritional inadequacies, and personalized therapeutic food plans.

This course is broken up into the following sections:

  • Review of Functional Medicine Fundamentals
  • Personalizing the IFM Therapeutic Food Plans
  • Phytonutrient Spectrum
  • Core Food Plan
  • Cardiometabolic Food Plan
  • Detox Food Plan
  • Mito Food Plan
  • Elimination Food Plans (Elimination Diet, Anti-Candida Food Plan, & Low-FODMAP Food Plan)
  • Integrative Case Studies
  • Summative Exam

Post-Course Elements

Post-Course Materials & Resources

Interactive videos and webinars are available to learners who successfully complete the course. Access to course materials continues for one year following the course.

Certificate of Completion

All learners will receive a certification of completion; those completing the course for CME/CE credit will receive a certificate stating the credit hours commensurate with their participation.
CME/CE Credits

Recommended Course Pairing:

Patient Education Series (PES)


PES can be bundled with the Therapeutic Food Plans course (TFP) at a discounted price or purchased as a standalone resource.

Learners may consider adding access to IFM’s Patient Education Series (PES). While not required for completion of TFP, this educational series provides patients with an interactive walk through of the IFM food plan recommendation for them. PES takes some of the burden off clinicians while giving back valuable time for clinical care. Learners have one year of access to the Patient Education Series after purchase date.

PES Benefits

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Who is this course for?

This course is specifically designed to provide the knowledge and skills to use lifestyle treatments in any clinical practice. This includes primary care providers of all types, including:

  • Nurses
  • Students
  • Nutritionists
  • Health coaches 
  • And any other clinician

For those clinicians who have taken Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP)™ or any Advanced Practice Modules (APMs), this course offers a great refresher on the impact of modifiable lifestyle factors and presents in-depth research on how each one is measurably demonstrated to improve outcomes in various conditions. It provides the tactical skills to effectively apply them in your practice, including how each factor affects various organ systems and how you can move patients toward sustainable behavior change. 

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Patient Education Series

The Patient Education Series (PES) is a group of interactive, online, on-demand videos designed to guide patients through key features of any of the IFM food plans. If you currently use IFM food plans in practice, PES saves time by allowing you to focus more time on personalizing the food plan rather than explaining it. This series can be purchased as part of the Therapeutic Food Plans: A Component of Personalized Nutrition (TFP) online course or as a standalone resource. PES can be easily distributed to patient health portals and helps set patients up for success. There are many benefits for both practitioners and patients, including:  

  • Convenient way to introduce patients to any of IFM’s eight food plans 
  • Saves practitioner time that otherwise would be spent repeating the same basic plan information to each patient for which it is indicated
  • Allows practitioners to focus on the elements of a food plan that are personalized for each patient
  • Provides patients continued access to the basics of their plan in case they have questions or forget an element of the plan
  • Helps set up patients for success in adopting sustained lifestyle and dietary changes
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A guided tour of each food plan

PES discusses the features and therapeutic benefit of each food plan. Having a dedicated resource with this information helps patients stick to their prescribed food plan and gives clear guidance on which foods to include and avoid.
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Streamline your practice

Save time going over basics of each food plans with these engaging video overviews. Dedicate more of your time to personalizing the food plan for optimal results. Patients have continued access to these videos in case they have questions or want to review.

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Participate in Accredited Functional Medicine Training

Direct accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) ensures IFM’s training meets rigorous standards for educational excellence and is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.
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NPCE Credit available for IFM Programs

Accredited by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists

IFM is accredited by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS) to provide Nutrition Professional Continuing Education (NPCE) credits for Certified Nutrition Specialists® (CNS®).

CME/CE Credit Information

The CME/CE option is intended for clinicians who need to fulfill continuing education requirements. If you do not need CME/CE credits, you may purchase the non-CME option. The CME/CE credit option is non-refundable. This option ensures your certificate of completion will indicate CME/CE hours of participation. Learners who do not complete the course within the time frame provided will lose access to all course materials and CME/CE credit. No partial CME/CE credit will be awarded.

The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

  • MD/DO: The Institute for Functional Medicine designates this other activity (a semi-synchronous online cohort) for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • ND: Generally, state naturopathic boards accept courses accredited through the ACCME.
  • CNS: IFM designates this activity for a maximum of 6.5 NPCE credits.
  • PA: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts contact hours approved through ACCME.
  • Nursing Professional: The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) accept contact hours approved through ACCME.
  • RD: The Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) accepts contact hours approved through ACCME.
  • Other: For information on applicability and acceptance of continuing education credit for this activity, please consult your professional licensing board or other credentialing organization regarding the acceptance of contact hours through ACCME-accredited organizations. Please contact IFM with any further questions.

*CME/CE credits are subject to change.
 

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Registration Policy

Program materials and certificates of completion are delivered to you through your personal IFM online account. Online access cannot be shared – course materials, course content, and CME/CE credit are provided to the individual registrant only. For this reason, you may not register multiple people or someone other than yourself. No registrations will be taken after 4:00 pm PT, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Participation Policy

Participants of the Therapeutic Food Plans online course have six weeks from the course start date (February 24, 2025) to complete the program. Learners who do not complete the course within this time frame will lose access to all course materials. Our systems do not allow for course extensions for any reason. No partial CME/CE credit will be awarded. For courses that qualify for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits, to receive CME credits, you must complete any required course evaluation(s) and a timecard by the stated deadline. Where applicable, course evaluation and timecard instructions will be emailed to you.
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Refund Policy

Tuition is non-transferable. Failure to log in to the course with no prior written cancellation or switch will result in complete forfeiture of tuition and course materials, and the course will not count toward certification (nonrefundable, nontransferable, no exceptions). Program materials are available only to registered participants. Log-in information is unique and cannot be shared. If you have completed your purchase through Affirm, your cancellation will incur an additional fee of up to 6%.

Cancellation requests must be submitted via the Course Cancellation Form. IFM will reply with a written acknowledgement once processed.

My registration for Therapeutic Food Plans (TFP) signifies that I have read and agreed to IFM’s cancellation policy found above. My participation in TFP is not a substitute for any licensing requirements that may be applicable to me and does not independently authorize me to render care, prescribe regimens, or prescribe medications or supplements. My activities in the health and wellness field remain subject to my education, qualifications, and licensure.
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Cancellation Request Received Eligible Refund
Date of registration/purchase to January 24, 2025 Refund less 10% administrative fee
January 25, 2025 – February 13, 2025 Refund less 25% administrative fee
After February 14, 2025 No Refund

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Frequently Asked Questions

More Information About the TFP

There will be over six hours of interactive materials, including videos, case studies, quizzes, and numerous patient-facing resources for each food plan.  

Practitioners will have six weeks to complete the approximately 6.5-hour course.  

Supporting program materials, including toolkit resources, will be available in your account for one year.   

Clinicians from all disciplines are encouraged to join the course, especially if they work closely with patients on nutrition. Through this course, practitioners will be able to select and personalize an appropriate food plan based on their patient’s unique set of health concerns and lifestyle preferences. 

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