{"id":1555,"date":"2023-06-22T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:28:49","slug":"get-to-know-your-college-caroline-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/2023\/06\/22\/get-to-know-your-college-caroline-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know your College: Caroline Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/caroline.brook\">Caroline, Administration Assistant (Student Support)<\/a> at the Mount Gambier Campus. She specialises in scheduling and administration for the MDRS 3rd-year medical program. Her passion for education and medicine, combined with her background in administration, enables her to create a welcoming office environment, build rapport with students, and enjoy moments of laughter and morning teas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your role and what does your work focus on?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am based at the Rural &amp; Remote Health Mount Gambier SA Campus.<\/p>\n<p>My role as an Administration Assistant and Student Support in the MDRS 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year medical student program is to provide specialist student scheduling, timetabling, and administration support to management and staff in a wide range of duties.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Where did you work before joining MPH?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Flinders, I worked within our family business with my husband, we currently own a full-service fitness facility, I still work within the business however we now have some fantastic staff that have allowed me to follow my preferred career path in administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong> What journey brought you to this point in your career?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Administration has always been my background and after building up a family business and bringing up two amazing daughters it was time to get back into a career for myself, I have always been interested in education and medicine so I have been very fortunate to be able to put my interests together in one role and I couldn\u2019t be happier!<\/p>\n<p><strong> What is something you love most about your work?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really love the office environment at the Mount Gambier Rural Campus, all staff work together as a team and I have felt welcome since day one. I also love building rapport with the students and learning about how they enjoyed the placements and experiences that the program offers, there\u2019s always lots of laughs and morning teas!<\/p>\n<p><strong> How do you like to relax or spend your spare time? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I manage to get some free time I enjoy a good dinner with friends, watching my daughters play sport, and taking the dog for a run. I also don\u2019t mind an afternoon nap to recharge the batteries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Meet Caroline, Administration Assistant (Student Support) at the Mount Gambier Campus. She specialises in scheduling and administration for the MDRS 3rd-year medical program. Her passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5156,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4201,4123],"tags":[1667],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmph-staff","category-get-to-know-cmph","tag-flinders-university-rural-and-remote-health-sa-nt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}