This, together with findings later in this paper, confirms that supervisors are open to student researchers feeding knowledge back to the community of research practise and supports the model of communities of practise as "not just internal... [but] histories of articulation with the rest of the world" [ 1].
These time restrictions set a boundary around the community of practise which the new researcher experiences, leading to divergence between the community of research practise as perceived by the student through the lens of their curriculum and as realized in the workplace.
The results of this research also revealed another uncomfortable problem in this field - which was that quantitative data obtained from large epidemiological studies was at odds with the qualitative research practised by Shere Hite and her ilk.
The authors' motivation for disseminating good principles of supervision in initiating students into communities of research practise is learning-focused.
[ 7] (vi) Involving undergraduate medical students in existing communities of research practise and giving undergraduate research scholarship status (McLean, personal correspondence).
Moreover, we see communities of research practise as having the potential to make Brew's notion of knowledge "as a product of communication and negotiation" a reality.
This sharing of revelations can have a formative effect within a community of research practise through transforming the meaning of research practise and output, thus illustrating the capacity of brokering to reify a research student's sense of indispensability within their community of practise.
In this study, we consider the specific paradigm of undergraduate medical students being initiated into the culture of research teams and as such, becoming recognized members of communities of (research) practise.
Through the design of a coding frame for supervisor responses, a wealth of recommendations has been captured to enable supervisors to make communities of research practise effective mediums for undergraduate student learning.
If used in these ways, the coding frame for this study should serve to foster a sense of mutual accountability between the supervisor and the student, thus helping to keep the community of research practise intact [ 1].
