Political Priorities, Voting, and Political Action Committee Engagement of Emergency Medicine Trainees: A National Survey.

"Conflicts of Interest: By the WestJEM article submission agreement, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding sources and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. The Emergency Medicine Residents Association provided financial support for survey incentives of this survey. There are no conflicts of interest or sources of funding to declare."

"Conflicts of Interest: By the WestJEM article submission agreement, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding sources and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. The Emergency Medicine Residents Association provided financial support for survey incentives of this survey. There are no conflicts of interest or sources of funding to declare."

"The survey was composed of three primary outcomes to describe EM trainee political priorities, voting, and PAC involvement (survey instrument in ). The survey questions were informed by prior literature regarding medical trainees and their political interests and PAC involvement.,,, In the first part of the survey, respondents were asked to rank their top three political priorities from the following subjects: 1) general healthcare; 2) emergency physician issues; and 3) US politics. We created this list of topics based on the current year’s National EMPAC 2018 candidate questionnaire, on Gallup Poll’s top issues for voters,, the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Legislative & Regulatory Priorities, and this survey’s pilot feedback. As part of the political priorities section we also assessed opinions on single-payer healthcare, based on language used by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation. In the second part of the survey, we assessed voting behavior and voting knowledge—registration, primaries, absentee, and early voting—based on questions from the US Census Voting and Registration Supplement. Lastly, we assessed participants’ awareness and engagement in any EM PAC."