qualifications: PhD
contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript
position: Associate Professor Rural Medicine
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision
position: Academic GP Trainee
qualifications: FACRRM
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Director
Australia
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Researcher
qualifications: MFamMed, FCFP(SA)
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision
position: Director
South Africa
Professor Ian Couper is Director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and Professor of Rural Health at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. A trained family physician, he spent nine years practising in a remote rural hospital in northern KwaZuluNatal province, and then 16 years working in primary care and health service development in rural North West province. He held the first chair of rural health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has chaired both the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) and the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice (WONCA Rural).
qualifications: FRRMS
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Interim Coordinator Rural Integrated Community Clerkship
qualifications: MBBS, FACRRM
contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision
position: Censor-in-Chief
Primary care reform in Greece: a focus on patients
article
Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
article
Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
article
Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
article
Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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