Practitioner Registration Criteria
| Council board | Health Professional |
|---|---|
| HPCSA (Automatic approval on VitaScript) | Dental Assisting, Dental Therapy & Oral Hygiene |
| (Health Professions Council of South Africa) | Dietetics and Nutrition |
| Emergency Care | |
| Envionmental Health | |
| Medical and Dental (and medical science) | |
| Medical Technology | |
| Occupational Therapy, Medical Orthotics, Prosthetics & Arts Therapy | |
| Optometry & Dispensing Opticians | |
| Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Biokinetics | |
| Psychology | |
| Radiography and Clinical Technology | |
| Speech language and hearing professionals | |
| AHPCSA (Automatic approval on VitaScript) | Acupuncture |
| (Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa) | Ayurveda Practitioner |
| Chinese Medicine and Accupuncture | |
| Chiropractic | |
| Homeopathy | |
| Naturopathy | |
| Osteopathy | |
| Phytotherapy | |
| Therapeutic Aromatherapy | |
| Therapeutic Massage Therapy | |
| Therapeutic Reflexology | |
| Unani Tibb | |
| SAPC (Automatic approval on VitaScript) | |
| South African Pharmacy Council | Pharmacists |
| IFM (Automatic approval on VitaScript) | Requirement: healthcare degree/diploma |
| The Institute for Functional Medicine | Completion of Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP) course (FM accrediated online course) |
| and six individual Functional Medicine Advanced Practice Modules (APMs): GI, Environmental Health, Immune, Hormone, Cardiometabolic, and Bioenergetics. |
|
| The Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FM accrediated online course) | |
| FMSA (Automatic approval on VitaScript) | (Same as IFM requirements) |
| Functional Medicine South Africa | |
| Other | Criteria to be approved: |
| Nutrigenomics Training | Case by case basis - automatic if registered with HPCSA/AHPCSA/SAPC |
| 3X4 DNAlysis |
3X4 Blueprint training (video version 90 minutes) 3X4 Fundamentals Level 1 3X4 Foundations Course DNAlysis 18 hours self study, plus live webinars |
| SANC | |
| South African Nursing Council | Individual practitioner assessment to be approved on VitaScript - review courses, training and hours completed in the field of healthcare and nutrition and assess level of competency |
| SAOA | |
| South African Optometric Association | Individual practitioner assessment to be approved on VitaScript - review courses, training and hours completed in the field of healthcare and nutrition and assess level of competency |
| IONC | |
| International Organization on Nutritional Consultants | Designation: ROHP (Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner) and RNCP (Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner) |
