NP and PA transition to practice: A scoping review of fellowships and onboarding programs

Perri Morgan¹, Hilary Barnes, Heather R Batchelder+8

• ¹Perri Morgan is a professor in the PA program at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Hilary Barnes is an assistant professor at Widener University School of Nursing in Chester, Pa. Heather R. Batchelder is a research program leader in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. Brandi Tuttle is a research and education librarian at Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives. Asefeh Faraz Covelli is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Christine Everett is founding PA program director and division chief of PA studies at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisc. George L. Jackson is a professor and director of the Program on Implementation and Improvement Science at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Tex., and a research health scientist and director of the Implementation and Improvement Science Lab in the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation at Durham (N.C.) Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Lorraine Anglin is an assistant professor and academic coordinator of the PA program at Duke University and practices at Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers medical clinic in Durham, N.C. Nathalie Ortiz Pate is an assistant professor in the PA program at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., and practices family medicine at Moncure (N.C.) Community Health Center. Patricia Dieter is a professor emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University School of Medicine. Janelle Bludorn is an assistant professor and academic coordinator of the PA program at Duke University. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.