Collection

Rural health professions education

Submission status
Closed
BMC Medical Education is pleased to invite submissions for a collection of research articles focused on Rural Health Professions Education. Rural communities face unique challenges in accessing quality healthcare due to shortages of healthcare providers, maldistribution of health professionals, skill gaps, and limited access to resources. The aim of this collection is to highlight research that focuses on developing strategies to improve the rural healthcare force by addressing the specific needs and challenges of rural communities.

Editors

  • Ian Couper Ian Couper  &

    Ian Couper

    Dr Ian Couper is Director, Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, and Professor of Rural Health, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, since 2016, following nearly fourteen years at the University of the Witwatersrand and the North West Provincial Department of Health. He is a family physician and past chair of the Working Party on Rural Practice of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). He is African section editor of Rural and Remote Health, and an associate editor of BMC Medical Education. He is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (MASSAf).

  • Davis Patterson Davis Patterson

    Davis Patterson

    Davis Patterson, PhD, is a sociologist and Research Associate Professor in the University of Washington (UW) Department of Family Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He is Director of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and Deputy Director, Health Equity, in the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies. His research seeks to inform policy to improve rural and under-resourced populations’ access to healthcare. His work focuses on the health workforce, examining educational pathways to prepare, recruit, and retain health care practitioners and innovative workforce models to achieve health equity.

Articles (7 in this collection)