Maximize what you’ll get out of the high-quality, specialty-specific education at ANPD’s 2026 Virtual Symposium with these tips from our team’s education program managers.

In this episode of the NPD Forecast: Quick Doses of NPD miniseries, ANPD Program Manager Sarah Hardacker discusses the role of the NPD practitioner as a champion for inquiry and explores the current and future state of evidence-based practice (EBP).

A wide range of education experiences, clinical skills, and workplace readiness led to retention and engagement issues among the MA staff in ambulatory care. It led the NPD team to redesign the MA onboarding experience to combine an expanded skills-based orientation program with a residency-style transition-to-practice program. The results are promising.