Exploring integrative or functional medicine?
Your path starts here.
Learn to think in systems, read functional labs with confidence, and help your patients truly heal.
Why the Swan Institute?
It’s more than another certification.
Built with NPs in mind.
Rooted in nursing's whole-person approach and the realities of NP practice, taught by an NP and Yale faculty member. Physicians and other clinicians are warmly welcome.
Functional lab review, woven in.
Functional lab interpretation runs through the whole curriculum, practiced on real-world cases, not saved for a single module.
A way of thinking, not a protocol.
The SWAN Framework gives you a clear clinical process for routine and complex cases alike, grounded in science.
Tools you use Monday morning.
A clinical workbook of fillable tools, plus a small cohort of peers to think alongside.
Many integrative and functional medicine programs lean on supplement protocols or are hard to apply in a real clinic schedule. The Swan Institute teaches a way of thinking you can use with every patient.
Clinical confidence.
Clear, organized thinking for every patient in front of you.
Holistic healing.
Care that sees the whole person, steeped in science.
Professional purpose.
More meaning and satisfaction in the work you chose.
The SWAN Framework.
The core of our approach.
A clinical way of thinking built on one belief: the body isn't broken, and it has the capacity to heal. Four steps that work with any patient, in any setting.
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Systems not silos.
The body is one integrated network. Zoom out before you zoom in.
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Whole-istic data.
Gather dense, personalized data and weave it with the patient's own lived story.
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Ask why.
Build the plan from the cause, not the symptom.
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Navigate the journey.
Partnership, not prescription. Walk alongside your patient over time.
The flagship NP program.
Now forming.
The flagship NP program.
A small, cohort-based pilot for nurse practitioners who want to think in systems and practice with more clarity and confidence. Learn the SWAN Framework alongside peers, with functional lab review woven into every part of the curriculum, and leave with a clinical workbook of fillable tools you can use with patients right away.
Spots will be limited. Join the interest list to be the first to hear when enrollment opens.
This is for you if you…
are an NP considering an integrative or functional medicine program
want to read and use functional labs with confidence
want a clear way to think through complex concerns
are looking for more satisfaction and purpose in your clinical work
Program details
Format: Online, 6 x 90-minute sessions over 12 weeks
Start date: 15 Jan 2027
Cohort size: 10
Meet your guide.
Dr. Amanda M. Swan DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, ANP-BC, FMCP-M, MSCP
Dr. Swan is a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner with over 20 years of clinical experience. She is faculty at the Yale School of Nursing, where she created and directs the Integrative Health & Precision Wellness MSN concentration, and she founded Swan Integrative Health & Wellness in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Her approach blends deep listening, compassion, and a holistic mindset steeped in science. The Swan Institute is where she shares that way of thinking with fellow NPs.