It has spawned a website, a Facebook page, a mascot and even a music video, but now Temora's Great Quack Quest could really be paying off.
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The innovative campaign was begun as a novel way to attract new doctors to Temora.
Rachel Christmas from the Temora Medical Centre said two applications from would-be future GPs had now been received.
Dr Christmas said the launch of a music video - with a nod to the movie La La Land - had helped to spread the message about Temora's search for additional GPs in a positive way.
Already, two new part-time GPs have beguin working at the Temora Medical Centre in recent months.
The community's bid to bolster its GP numbers follows the opening of new $2.3 million operating at Temora Hospital in August 2018.
The opening comes a year after the community successfully fought a plan to close the old operating theatre because of concerns about the air conditioning and wall suction after an audit conducted by the Australian Council of Healthcare Services.
In 2017, the Murrumbidgee Local Health District had planned to close the existing theatre and transfer services for women who needed caesarean births and gynaecological surgery to Cootamundra and Young hospitals.
