Many States in Australia have established programs to recruit overseas trained doctors to meet doctor shortages in rural areas. Most Australian recruitment programs are targeting experienced GPs with post-graduate qualifications recognised by the National Advisory Panel (with ACRRM and RACGP). Under the Victorian Overseas Trained Doctor Rural Recruitment Scheme, RWAV administers a process that enables the assessment of doctors who do not have RACGP recognised post-graduate qualifications but have a minimum of 4 years equivalent GP experience as assessed by the RACGP. This process involves Structured Interviews, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Referee Checks. The introduction of this assessment process has widened the pool of clinically competent and suitably qualified doctors for Victorian rural General Practice. The Structured Interview formats and OSCEs were developed with the cooperation of eminent professors from University of Melbourne, Monash University, Flinders and Queensland University Medical Schools as well as the 2 Colleges (RACGP and ACRRM). As of September 2001, 62 doctors have undertaken structured interviews and 48 doctors have been examined by OSCE. The OSCE pass rate has been approximately 50%. In total, 32 doctors have been approved for placement in rural Victoria. This presentation will outline the development of the Structured Interview and Clinical Exams process, the training of interviewers, outline how the OSCEs are conducted, the issues that have emerged and the results of the assessment process to date.