{"id":35584,"date":"2026-01-20T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=35584"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:32:31","slug":"end-of-life-education-study-highlighted-by-national-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/end-of-life-education-study-highlighted-by-national-media\/","title":{"rendered":"End-of-Life Education Study Highlighted by National Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2026\/01\/14\/death-and-doctors-study-looks-at-medical-student-education-on-end-of-life-care\/\">recent Washington State University study<\/a> identifying a need for consistent end-of-life education in medical school curricula has made headlines nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\">The findings were covered by national media outlets including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2026-01-16\/medical-students-not-being-adequately-trained-to-confront-death-review-finds\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/health-news\/general-health\/medical-students-not-being-adequately-trained-to-confront-death-review-finds\">HealthDay<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-01-death-doctors-medical-student-life.html\">Medical Xpress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/wsu-study-probes-medical-students-end-of-life-1601837\/\">Mirage News<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260114\/WSU-study-reveals-gaps-in-end-of-life-care-education-for-doctors.aspx\">News Medical<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\">The review was led by Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine alum Logan Patterson, MD, in collaboration with medical student Anna Roman, internal medicine resident Angelique King, MD, and WSU faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A recent Washington State University study identifying a need for consistent end-of-life education in medical school curricula has made headlines nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":35585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[95,22,32,73],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35586,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions\/35586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=35584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}