It is the attending physician's responsibility to ensure that his junior staff record progress notes daily.
Detailed daily progress notes recorded in the patient's medical record are valuable for patient assessment.
When writing progress notes, it's helpful to follow the SOAP format.
Occasionally with critically ill patients, it will be necessary to record several progress notes during the same day.
Recently, a medical student informed me that she observed a group of medical students busily writing progress notes in charts of patients that had been previously discharged two weeks prior.
