Table 2 Faculty areas of research expertise and prior research supervision experience

Clinical Research

86

66

Public Health and Epidemiology

43

32

Biomedical Science

38

29

Medical Education

22

16

Bioinformatics and Information Technology

11

9

Medical Policy, Law or Ethics

11

9

Supervisor experience

Supervision experience type

Project duration

n

%

Novice

None

-

13

10

Moderately experienced^a

Summer research projects

6–10 weeks

5

4

Honours projects

6 months

12

9

Post-graduate completions

2–4 years

22

17

Moderately Experienced Total

45

34

Highly experienced

All the above supervision types

-

75

56