Filling in the Gaps ™:
A Functional Framework for Peri/Menopause
A Comprehensive CME Course for Healthcare Practitioners
COURSE OVERVIEW
"HRT is a tool, not the treatment plan."
The FiGs: Framework is a comprehensive continuing medical education course designed for healthcare practitioners who want to move beyond symptom management and understand why their perimenopausal and menopausal patients aren't responding to conventional approaches.
This course bridges the gap between conventional hormone therapy and functional medicine, giving you the clinical reasoning skills to see what's actually driving dysfunction and create individualized treatment plans that work.
Format: Self-Paced Online Learning
Estimated CME Hours: 8
Modules: 5 Comprehensive Modules + LIVE Sessions (FOR JANUARY 2026 COHORT)
This Course is For Clinicians Who Want to:
➤ Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants managing women's health
➤ Family Medicine & Internal Medicine providers seeing midlife women
➤ OB/GYNs wanting to expand beyond conventional HRT
➤ Functional medicine practitioners seeking hormone expertise
➤ Integrative health providers building perimenopause programs
➤ Any clinician frustrated by patients who "should be better but aren't"
What You'll Learn
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
➤ Apply a systems-based approach to peri/menopause management that goes beyond conventional care models
➤ Identify root-cause patterns driving persistent midlife symptoms using functional medicine frameworks
➤ Interpret hormonal shifts across the menopausal transition and recognize axis dysfunction even when labs appear "normal"
➤ Assess gut health, liver function, and stress physiology as upstream contributors to hormonal imbalance
➤ Select appropriate HRT formulations, compare delivery methods, and integrate hormone therapy within a comprehensive care plan
➤ Construct individualized, root-cause treatment strategies for complex patients
COURSE CURRICULUM
INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE
MODULE 1: FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE FOUNDATIONS
MODULE 2: HORMONE PHYSIOLOGY THROUGH A FUNCTIONAL LENS
MODULE 3: MAKING SENSE OF HRT
MODULE 4: THE UNDERLYING DRIVERS — GUT, LIVER, AND STRESS
MODULE 5: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE — FUNCTIONAL INTERVENTIONS
COURSE RESOURCES
WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE DIFFERENT
✔ Clinically Grounded: Created by a double board-certified NP with 18+ years in healthcare. This isn't theory pulled from textbooks. It's what actually works with real patients.
✔ Evidence-Based: We tell you what the research shows, where the gaps are, and what remains uncertain.
✔ Systems Thinking: You'll understand why your interventions work (or don't), not just what to prescribe.
✔ Practical: Frameworks you can use immediately. No fluff, no filler.
✔ Honest About Limitations: We tell you what we know, what we don't, and when conventional evaluation and referral are warranted.
Testimonials
THE PHILOSOPHY
Most perimenopause courses teach you what to prescribe. This one teaches you how to think when HRT isn't landing.
Because the women walking into your office aren't textbook cases. They're complex. They've been dismissed. They've been told their labs are "normal." They've tried HRT and it didn't work, or it worked for a while and then stopped.
These women don't need another protocol. They need a provider who can look beyond the prescription pad and understand what's actually interfering with their response. Gut dysfunction. Liver clearance. Inflammation. Stress physiology. The stuff conventional training glosses over and most functional courses bury in buzzwords.
The FiGs Framework gives you a clinical reasoning system rooted in physiology, not trends. So you can finally help the patients who haven't responded to anything else.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Stacy Marie Ronquillo FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, IFMCP, MSCP
Double board-certified Family and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with 18+ years of healthcare experience, including over a decade in emergency medicine. IFM & Menopause Society certified and founder of Remedy Functional Medicine, a medical practice specializing in functional approaches to perimenopause and hormone optimization.
"This isn't another protocol library. I spent years and thousands of dollars on functional medicine courses that promised answers but delivered the same recycled flowcharts. Perimenopause doesn't respond to copy-paste medicine, and most training doesn't prepare you to think beyond it. This is the framework I had to piece together myself. Now you don't have to.”
