Episode 008: James Maskell, The Evolution of Medical Education: How The Functional Forum Is Changing The Way Clinicians Learn, Collaborate and Practice Medicine

In Episode 008 of A Medicinal Mind: Wisdom and Well-Being, we welcome the innovative creator of the world’s largest integrative medicine conference, the Functional Forum and integrative medicine visionary James Maskell.

I was quite fortunate to connect with James in October 2016 at a Functional Forum event in Washington D.C. and have since collaborated in creating and releasing my E-Book on Functional and Integrative Medicine Education. James has been perhaps my single biggest influence pushing me to become an educator and advocate for functional medicine and is a tremendously passionate role model for anyone seeking to reverse chronic disease and achieve optimal health.
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Back in March of this year, I was honored to be a part of James’ podcast The Evolution of Medicine’s Functional Forum, where we discussed the vision and purpose of the functional medicine education resource E-Book and the greater need to expand medical education beyond medical school walls and hospital wards.

As a continuation of this conversation, we share today in a reflective and hopeful conversation addressing
1. A brief State of the Union for the Functional Forum and Functional Medicine education as a whole.    

• What are we doing well as a community?
• How and where have we progressed?
• What are the biggest challenges yet to be faced?

2. Updates on educational opportunities through the Institute for Functional Medicine

• New pricing for medical students and residents
• The opportunity to attend conferences via online streaming
• A new foundational and inexpensive online module offered through the IFM for those just getting started in Functional Medicine or wishing for a robust refresher.

3.  Ways to continue to grow community and promote this type of care in the next generation of clinicians.

• Where is the best place to start a practice?
• How do we engage more medical students? Residents? pushing them to start a private practice in the first place
• Is a church an ideal starting place for a Functional medicine micropractice?

    
4. James’ latest projects and visions for the Functional Forum

• Journey to 100. Can we get human life expectancy to 100?
• How the Functional Forum is adapting and evolving to meet the needs of each community
• How they are supporting innovators bringing CME and medical students into the Functional Forum meet-ups

I was so thrilled to share in this conversation with James and hope you enjoy and feed off the the tremendous energy and passion in this exhilarating discussion.

To learn more about Functional Forum you may use the link below:
http://functionalforum.com/about/

To access James’ book, Evolution of Medicine, you may use the link below:
http://goevomed.com/start/

And to learn more about Age 100, a world-exclusive conference dedicated to living a long and healthy life, you may use the link below
https://journey100.org/join

Enjoy the show!

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