Profiles And Contributions To This Article

What are they thinking? Facilitating clinical reasoning through longitudinal patient exposure in rural practice

Assoc Prof David Campbell

qualifications: FACRRM

contribution: original concept, collected data, literature review, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Associate Professor, Director

Prof Lucie Walters

qualifications: FACRRM

contribution: original concept, designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Professor Postgraduate Medical Education

Australia

Prof Ian Couper

qualifications: MFamMed FCFP(SA)

contribution: original concept, designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Director and Professor of Rural Health

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).