[Dr. Victoria Hayes]
My name is Victoria Hayes. I'm a GP in Melbourne. When I was a young trainee, my mentor sat down and said to me. ‘The one thing you need to remember is that things are going to change on a regular basis’. I really see myself as an every day local GP. But even in that role I have had some contact with some clinical trials, things like the change in the pap smears that come through trials, aspirin trials, a lot of the vaccination trials I try to incorporate into my everyday life.
So they affect me every day. If a patient has a problem like MS or Parkinson's. They can find trials that they might be interested in and then come back to me with the information and we can work on it together. People are going to ask some questions about things that we don't necessarily know much about yet. We simply cannot, as an individual, be across it all.
I did a term in the oncology unit and I remember the oncologists were one of the first people who really saw the value of trials. The outcomes from those breast cancer trials in the eighties were worldwide and have made a huge impact on mortality and morbidity. Research and science has been able to deliver us better tools to deliver a better outcome. I think clinical trials are part of life in modern practice.
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When I was a young trainee, my mentor sat down and said to me the one thing you need to remember is that things are going to change on a regular basis.
People are going to ask some questions about things that a GP doesn’t necessarily know much about yet. As an individual we simply cannot be across it all.
A lot of changes to clinical practice has come about through clinical trials. Clinical trials on as pap smears, aspirin and vaccination have all made a difference and the outcomes from the breast cancer trials in the 80s are known worldwide and have made a huge impact on mortality and morbidity.
Research and science has been able to deliver us better tools to deliver a better outcome.