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Expanding Access to Lifestyle Medicine for FQHCs

A 50% scholarship match for primary care providers (MD/DO/NP/PA) who work within Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the United States.

This program helps build a nationwide lifestyle medicine-trained workforce. In addition to subsidized education and certification, participants join the Health Center Learning Collaborative, gaining guidance and peer support to implement lifestyle medicine across their clinics.

Application closes September 30, 2025.

Applications submitted after August 31, 2025, will include immediate access to Board Review Course, 4th Edition, LM2025 Online and the 2026 certification exam.

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Join thousands of clinicians worldwide who are leading the way to a healthier future

Address Chronic Disease Burden

FQHCs serve communities with higher rates of lifestyle-related illness. Certification equips you with the skills to treat, reverse, and prevent chronic disease—improving patient outcomes while helping manage the cost of care.

Advance Health Equity

Lifestyle medicine targets the root causes of disease and reduces disparities through evidence-based, whole-person approaches. Your certification underscores your commitment to equitable care in underserved populations.

Empower Your Practice & Career

As a certified lifestyle medicine clinician, you gain recognition as a subject matter expert and leader in patient-centered care. You’ll be prepared to guide interprofessional teams, boost provider satisfaction, reduce burnout, and enhance patient engagement across care settings.

Scholarship details

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) play a vital role in providing essential healthcare to marginalized communities, where chronic disease rates are often disproportionately high. Yet, clinicians in these centers often lack the resources to drive lasting healthy behavior change. 

To address this gap, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) in partnership with the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) is expanding the National Training Initiative — offering a 50% scholarship match for primary care providers (MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs) working in FQHCs to earn lifestyle medicine board certification. 

This matching support helps reduce financial barriers, making it easier than ever for clinicians on the front lines to access this transformative education and training. 

Individuals—whether healthcare providers themselves or generous donors—can contribute the matching amount to support FQHC clinicians in receiving this essential training. 

Institutions (such as FQHCs, health systems, employers) can cover the matching portion through continuing education support, grants, or other funding sources.

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Primary care providers (MDs, DOs, NPs, PAs) currently working in an U.S.-based FQHC or a Community Health Center.

The scholarship covers 50% of the costs for the required lifestyle medicine certification prerequisites and the certification exam fees:

  • LM2025 Virtual Conference Registration (Nov 16 – 19, 2025 with CME/CE access through Dec 31, 2025) (Retail price: $949)
  • Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course, 4th Edition (Retail price: $899)
  • ABLM Board Exam Certification  Fees for 2025 or 2026* (Retail price: $1,299-$1,499)

* Does not include the non-refundable fee required to register for the exam.

Applications are accepted until September 30, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. PT.

Financial investment

ACLM Membership

$249

Foundations of LM Course

Members: $337.50

Non-members: $449.50

Annual Conference

Members: $324.50

Non-members: $474.50

Exam Registration

Members: $824.50

Non-members: $899

Total

Members: ~ $1,735.50

Non-members: ~ $2,072

Maintaining your lifestyle medicine certification

Staying certified through the American and International Boards of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM & IBLM) is simple and affordable—especially if you enroll in the Lifestyle Medicine Maintenance of Certification (LMMOC) pathway.

*Lifestyle Medicine Intensivists must also meet all listed MOC criteria.

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Enroll in the LMMOC program and submit payment to the ABLM by March 31 after your initial certification.

Submit your annual LMMOC payment by March 31. 

Read three expert-selected articles and pass associated quizzes (80% passing score; unlimited attempts) by December 31.

Maintain your ACLM membership to receive discounts on ABLM MOC credits, including 6-8 free credit hours provided annually.

Complete 30 hours of lifestyle medicine-specific CME during your 5-year cycle. 

Submit CME documentation by December 31 of your 5th year.

Staying on the MOC pathway eliminates the need for a 10-year recertification exam and costs roughly half as much.

If you choose not to participate in the LMMOC pathway, you must recertify every 10 years by:

  • Completing 30 hours of online CME/CE
  • Completing 20 hours of event CME/CE
  • Retaking the certification exam

Important: If you enroll in the LMMOC pathway but fail to meet requirements (including payments), you’ll be removed from the program and cannot rejoin. You’ll automatically return to the 10-year recertification track.

We use a three-tier pricing system to adjust for global differences in purchasing power. Rates vary by location.

Are you eligible for this opportunity?

If you are an MD, DO, NP, or PA working in an FQHC or CHC, you are eligible for the national training initiative scholarship. Start the process today.

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