Table 2.

IFM Competencies with ACGME domains

ACGME Core Competency	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Patient Care		x	x		x				x	x	x	x	x	x
Medical Knowledge								x
Practice-Based Learning & Improvement	x							x							x
Interpersonal & Communication Skills				x			x
Professionalism	x	x													x
System-Based Practice						x	x								x

IFM Competencies

1. Practices self-care

2. Demonstrates self-awareness

3. Uses patient-centered care techniques

4. Uses communication skills that enhance the physician/patient relationship

5. Facilitates lifestyle changes in patients

6. Knows how to refer appropriately to CAM practitioners

7. Practices constructively and collaboratively with other health team member

8. Assesses scientific and historical evidence for allopathic as well as CAM approaches to specific diseases and syndromes

9. Integrates mind-body recommendations into practice appropriately

10. Integrates botanical recommendations into practice appropriately

11. Integrates nutrition recommendations into practice appropriately

12. Integrates physical activity recommendations into practice appropriately

13. Counsels and supports patients regarding spirituality

14. Composes and administers individualized integrative medicine treatment plans

15. Positively impacts their organization and/or environment (local, regional and/or national) with regard to Integrative Medicine