Recruitment and retention of new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme's Targeted Recruitment Strategy: a focus group study.

Objective: To explore the results of a targeted recruitment strategy designed to attract and retain new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services where they can access Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) training and support to qualify as general practitioners.

Study Design: Two 2-hour purposeful online focus groups on the RVTS' Targeted Recruitment Strategy.

Setting And Participants: Five participants and nine stakeholders with knowledge and experience of the strategy.

Holistic support framework for doctors training as rural and remote general practitioners: a realist evaluation of the RVTS model.

Objective: To develop theory about how and why the supervision and support model used by the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) addresses the professional and non-professional needs of doctors (including many international medical graduates) who are training towards general practice or rural generalist fellowship while based in the same rural or remote practice.

Design, Setting, Participants: We conducted a realist evaluation based on the RAMESES II protocol. The initial theory was based on situated learning theory, networked ecological systems theory, cultural theory and geographical narcissism theory.