Associate PI Scheme: Experiences from the MOLGEN study video transcript

'Associate PI Scheme: Experiences from the MOLGEN study' - video transcript

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0:00 - Audio (Rachel Palmer talking)

Hi, I'm Rachel Palmer.

0:01 - Onscreen text

Rachel Palmer, Associate Principal Investigator for MOLGEN

0:02 - Audio (Rachel Palmer talking)

I'm the Pharmacy Lead for the Genomic Medicine Service Alliance in the South West.

0:05 - Audio (Helen Winter talking)

Hi, I'm Helen Winter.

0:06 - Onscreen text

Helen Winter, Principal Investigator for MOLGEN

0:07 - Audio (Helen Winter talking)

I'm a Medical Oncologist here at UHBW, I'm also the PI on several studies including the MOLGEN study.

0:13 - Audio (Rachel Palmer talking)

So the Associate PI Scheme is a really great opportunity to just gain a bit more confidence in your skills to become a PI in future and also for me importantly, a chance to get some practical experience of some of the tasks the PI undertakes. I think I learned an awful lot. I think it was really helpful, like having had almost like a theoretical knowledge from GCP training of the responsibilities of a PI, it was really helpful to gain some practical experience of that.

0:40 - Audio (Helen Winter talking)

We're all quite stretched as clinicians at the moment, so just having somebody else there who is invested in the study and really wants to get the recruitment going has just been hugely beneficial. So it has meant that we've recruited our first patient within the first week of opening the study. The patients felt really well informed. It's not too onerous a study so they've been very happy to participate, but it's felt very much like a really good partnership between the clinical research team and our patients and it's gone better than my wildest dreams actually. I have to say it's just been a fantastic collaboration. Our patients have really benefited from it and so I just think that all schemes that are eligible should have an Associate PI. I don't see a reason why not.

1:31 - Audio (Helen Winter talking)

I just really want to thank you for all the work, particularly around the communications and the presentations that you did at the trials meetings and on the ward and to the different doctor groups and clinician groups because I think that really helped spread the word of the trial.

1:46 - Audio (Rachel Palmer talking)

Oh thanks Helen, well yeah I found the whole thing just really helpful and I just got such a great experience because I didn't realise how much I didn't know about setting up a clinical trial and I guess the detail of what a PI did, so it's been really great to have your support kind of knowing that you're there if I've got any questions but also it's been great for me to be able to kind of branch out and do things like consent the patients and help collect the data as well, just to get a bit of hands-on experience.

2:13 - Audio (Helen Winter talking)

So really just having the courage to ask people, go to the clinical trials unit and manager and research nurses, but also if you're hearing that a trial is coming up, going to the PI and just saying is there any opportunity for me to be the API and if that hasn't been linked to the API Scheme, why not and could we look at doing that, because many of the trials can be opened for the API Scheme and I think it really helps in delivery as well as, you know, developing our colleagues.

2:43 - Audio (Rachel Palmer talking)

I think it's a great way of kind of future-proofing your research workforce and just kind of making sure that you've got the best capacity you can have, using all of your skills in your workforce for future trials that come along.

2:57 - Onscreen text

Find out more about the Associate PI Scheme and how to get involved at:

www.nihr.ac.uk