Research as reflection: A key to improving practice

Professor Ian Couper - South Africa
BA (Wits), MBBCh (Wits), MFamMed (Medunsa), FCFP (SA)

Professor Ian Couper is Principal Specialist in Rural Medicine, North West Provincial Department of Health, South Africa, and Professor of Rural Health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg.

He is director of the Wits Centre for Rural Health.
He is a family physician by training, and is currently acting head of the Wits Department of Family Medicine.

His areas of activity are in health service development, supporting rural students, undergraduate and postgraduate education, research and advocacy. These interests were nurtured during nine years spent in a rural district hospital in northern KwaZuluNatal province.

He was active in the formation of the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) more than 12 years ago, and currently chairs the Working Party on Rural Practice of the World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca).

He serves as editor of the African section of the international journal Rural and Remote Health.

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