- To provide benefits and services to all, via open membership
- To provide charitable public benefit to the international community through Integrative Medicine.
- To address underprivilege and poverty in medical health through education and funding.
- To foster the adoption of stringent precautionary measures and ethical protocol to avoid potentially misleading information for:
- The general public at large,
- Mainstream health professionals and,
- Complementary health providers generally
- To offer general public and professional peer review uploaded to the ICIM website www.icimedicine.com by properly reporting on available experimental trials; anecdotal studies; scientific references; popular publications and potentially sensationalistic media releases.
- To appreciate quackery, misrepresentation and unsubstantiated claims of "alternative" treatments or therapies with indignant contempt as tragically cruel stressors encountered by people and their families suffering potentially terminal diseases such as cancer and aids.
- Comprehensive understanding and reinforcement of necessary professional ethical adherence in contrast to informal or ephemeral notions of alternative medicine adventure concept excursions departing from:
- Appropriate scientific research design,
- Accurate manuscript record keeping
- Authentic medical documentation,
- Professional avoidance of ethical conflicts of interest
- Sharing information with the general public professionally with sensitivity and objectivity.
