{"id":4643,"date":"2018-12-07T10:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:37:04","slug":"first-chances-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/first-chances-project\/","title":{"rendered":"First Chances Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 5<sup>th<\/sup> December Henry Rae, Mike Fearon, Dr Heather Lockwood and Dr Lex Le Saint-Grant delivered a medical event for 106 S1 pupils from Auchmuty HS, Levenmouth Academy, Viewforth HS, and Woodmill HS who are on the First Chances Foundation programme.\u00a0 The pupils each had 4 sessions, 2 with Biology, one anatomy and one physiology.\u00a0 The students were fully engaged and enjoyed learning about bones and their purpose and the mechanisms of balance and how to test these mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/study\/access\/projects\/first-chances-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Chances Project<\/a> is a partnership between the University of St Andrews, Fife Education and The Robertson Trust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4644 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/12\/1st-c-3-cropped-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils from Fife High Schools recently visited St Andrews as part of the First Chances Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1],"tags":[79,320,352,483,498,568,738,837,874,934,941,1110,1159],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outreach-public-engagement","category-uncategorised","tag-anatomy","tag-dr-heather-lockwood","tag-dr-lex-le-saint-grant","tag-fife-education","tag-first-chances","tag-henry-rae","tag-mike-fearon","tag-outreach","tag-physiology","tag-project","tag-public-engagement","tag-the-robertson-trust","tag-university-of-st-andrews"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 08:51:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}