Table 1 Eligibility criteria

• Population: primary care physicians (family physicians, general practitioners), nurses, and medical and nursing students as targets of the intervention(s); this article will focus on medical students;

• Intervention/phenomenon of interest: interventions to attract these professionals implemented at national, sub-national/regional, and local levels, (irrespective of the date of the start of their implementation);

• Context: Primary care services in European member states and candidate countries, European Economic Area, European Free Trade Association countries, and the United Kingdom;

• Type of document: qualitative, mixed methods, quantitative, observational studies, experimental and quasi-experimental studies, technical and policy documents;

• Documents concerning several countries must include information on specific eligible countries;

• Full text must be available (word, pdf);

• Published between January 2018 to February 2024 in English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish

• Intervention/phenomenon of interest and population: intervention(s) not explicitly targeting included professional categories;

• Type of document: commentary (letters, editorial), research-protocol, conference abstracts, internet pages and poster presentations (will be excluded but can serve in the discussion of the findings);

• Full text not available in electronic format;

• Another period or language than the ones covered in this review