Transforming the transfer process: A quality improvement project to assess and improve transfer notes.

Transfer notes (TNs) standardize handoffs from one inpatient unit to another to optimize patient safety. They are especially important when patients are downgraded from high acuity settings such as intensive care units (ICU). Despite this, there is a paucity of evidence around safe transfers.

What are the attitudes of medical students and housestaff towards health advocacy? A physician-led voter registration initiative and health advocacy survey.

Background: Compared to the general population, physicians have been shown to be less engaged in civic participation and less likely to vote. However, perspectives of current trainees on health advocacy remain under-explored.

Objective: To investigate perspectives on a physician led voter registration initiative and identify current beliefs of physicians in training and medical students regarding physician health advocacy.