The FMHS tracking project is a longitudinal investigation of the characteristics,
study and career patterns of FMHS students.
The database has been created by data entry of information sourced from questionnaires
completed by students of the BHSc, BNurs, BPharm and MBChB degree programmes at
The University of Auckland from 2006 onwards. These questionnaires are administered
at the beginning of students' entry level year, at the end of their exit level year
and complemented with follow up data gathered about graduates.
To ensure its ongoing usefulness and effectiveness the tracking project is administered
by a governance board made up of representatives from the FMHS schools, members
of the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, a project administrator
and a database developer. Members of the board may be contacted for information
about the project.
FMHS staff members can obtain
anonymous data for research purposes with the approval
of the Tracking Project Governance Board. The use of the data is subject to requirements
set down by The University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee.
All publications using Tracking Project data must acknowledge it as a source of
data and should also allow authorship credit for key academic staff involved
in the development of questionnaires, the collection of data and the maintenance
of the ethical approval for the project. Potential users should contact the chair
of the Governance Board to discuss these requirements.
Members
|
Position |
Name |
|
Chair |
Mark Barrow |
|
Representative Bachelor of Nursing |
Heather Baker |
|
Representative Bachelor of Pharmacy |
Maree Jensen |
|
Representative Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery |
Phillippa Poole |
|
Representative Bachelor of Health Sciences |
James Clark |
|
Representative Centre for Medical & Health Sciences Education |
Jennifer Weller |
|
Student representatives FMHS (Pharmacy) |
Nathaneal Lucas/Benjamin Harley |
|
Project administrator |
Craig Webster |
|
Database developer |
Ian Wood |
The terms of reference under which the Governance
Board
- To receive reports from the project administrator and database developer;
- To consider rule on issues related to data entry, database management or changes
etc;
- To consider requests for changes to questionnaires;
- To review and approve
current and proposed uses of the data;
- To maintain oversight of ethics approval
and ensure ethical requirements are met; and
- To handle any other matters related
to the project.
If you wish to use the data please complete the following form and send to the Project
Administrator:
Data Request Form(32.5KB DOC)
Having used data, researchers may think that changes or additions to the collection
of data may be useful. These suggestions should be forwarded to the project administrator.
Any changes to questionnaires must be ratified by The University of Auckland Human
Participants Ethics Committee and will be processed on an annual basis, having been
approved by the Governance Board.
