{"id":15577,"date":"2009-11-18T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=15577"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:08:44","slug":"video-abrahamsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/18\/video-abrahamsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Lee Abrahamsen is at the heart of Bates&#8217; medical studies program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, close to 90 percent of Bates students applying to medical or veterinary schools gain admission. That record of success is due in part to the work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x152927.xml\">Lee Abrahamsen<\/a>, associate professor of biology and chair of the college&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x163586.xml\">medical studies committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of her own experiences in college, Abrahamsen keenly understands that as students change and grow, they need help adjusting their career plans. &#8220;We know there&#8217;s development that goes on, but sometimes it&#8217;s not thought about in terms of where a student begins &#8212; what they\u2019re capable of thinking and understanding in their freshman year &#8212; versus their senior year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about Abrahamsen and medical studies at Bates by watching a short video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Someone to Talk to\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_c-VQ_Bb5X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, close to 90 percent of Bates students applying to medical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,1,130,220],"tags":[11048,10835,1690,10763,5213,5818,9033,10834],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-batesnews","category-collaboration","category-service","tag-accessibility","tag-bates-career-development-center","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-lee-abrahamsen","tag-medical-school","tag-veterinary-school","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123843,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions\/123843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}