- Describe and Identify the functional medicine approach to common pediatric problems
- Develop a comprehensive functional medicine assessment and treatment of common pediatric problems such as constipation, headaches and migraines, upper respiratory infections and otitis media, food sensitivities, allergies, asthma and atopy
- Examine the salient features of history, physical examination and laboratory testing to best implement functional medicine interventions to common pediatric problems
- Utilize a functional medicine approach to assess what each child may need to get or get rid of to treat each of these common pediatric problems
- Summarize the literature supporting the use of functional medicine in pediatrics
- Recognize the four pillars of a functional medical approach to chronic pediatric illness – gastroenterologic, immunologic, metabolic and neurologic
- Classify and explain the importance of the genetic and genomic susceptibilities/predisposition and environmental triggers of chronic pediatric illnesses
- Utilize a functional medicine approach to assessing and treating chronic pediatric disease such as ADHD, Autism, Autoimmune Encephalitis, Anxiety, Allergy and Atopy
- Interpret the literature citations and develop protocols based on emerging evidence supporting a functional medicine approach to these chronic pediatric problems
- Appraise the assessment and management of the importance of the microbiome in immune tolerance, allergy and autoimmunity.
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