Rose
A Day in the Life of Kelly Rose is busy, filled with preparing medical charts for clinics, booking student appointments, transcribing medical dictation for psychiatrists and doctors, and giving support to front office staff.
Rose has worked as medical secretary for Student Health Services since 1995. Health services provides a variety of medical services, including access to specialists. Four psychiatrists work on a rotating basis, with one or two normally involved daily in psychiatry clinics. “Usually there are seven or eight students — sometimes more — booked for each clinic. It is a very busy environment.”
“From January to April it is flat-out busy, as students feel the pressure to get through their year,” says Rose. “We are here to support each of them through their real-life challenges, stresses and concerns, above and beyond the type of counseling they would receive for academics or career options.”
Rose’s goal is to support the doctors, students and their families, as well as the nurses, front office staff, community doctors and emergency mental health workers. “UVic has always been a good fit for me, ever changing and challenging me to be my best.”
Rose has a “passion for human rights, human dignity and freedom of speech and religion.” Currently she is an elected member-at-large with CUPE 951 and is the CUPE 951 good and welfare committee chair. She is also an active member of the Canada-Tibet Committee raising awareness about conditions in Tibet.
“I feel the university is like a village, with many opportunities to become involved,” she says, “I definitely want to stay connected when I retire. For example, I would love to participate in forming a ‘booster club’ for UVic women’s basketball as one of the many things on my ‘to do’ agenda.”
Although the pace can be hectic at times, Rose says it is “essential to have a good sense of humour and appreciate our ability to get the job done in a professional and caring manner…it really means being part of a wonderful team supporting each other in the best interests of the student.”
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