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  • Healthcare professional development
  • Medical education strategies
  • Onboarding program design

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  • Onboarding is crucial for new physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
  • On-the-job learning is a significant component of professional development for this group.
  • This study examines organizational strategies for imparting information and skills during onboarding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and describe common strategies used in onboarding programs for PAs and NPs.
  • To provide guidance for organizations developing or refining their onboarding initiatives.
  • To highlight the reliance on adult learning principles in these programs.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study involving interviews with 13 onboarding program administrators in 2018.
  • Interviews were transcribed and analyzed for thematic patterns by a research team.
  • Feedback from interviewees was incorporated into the analysis.

Main Results:

  • Seven distinct onboarding strategies were identified.
  • These include clinical and professional mentoring, shadowing, administrative check-ins, didactic content delivery, tailored content/ramp-up, and competency assessment.
  • Mentoring emerged as a heavily utilized strategy.

Conclusions:

  • The identified strategies offer practical guidance for designing PA and NP onboarding programs.
  • Programs effectively leverage mentoring and adult learning principles.
  • Further research is recommended to evaluate the efficacy of these onboarding strategies.