PodChatLive is a new monthly chat show for the regular expert continuing development of Podiatrists as well as other people that happen to be interested. It is hosted by Ian Griffiths coming from England in the UK and Craig Payne from Melbourne in Australia. They stream the show live via Facebook and then is later modified and uploaded to YouTube so that it can reach a broad viewers. Each live show incorporates a different guest or group of guests to talk about a particular area of interest every time. Inquiries and comments are usually responded to live by the hosts and guests while in the live episode on Facebook. There isn't very much follow-up interaction on the YouTube channel. For people who like audio only, you will find there's a PodCast version of each stream on iTunes and also Spotify and the other usual podcast platforms for that use. They've already obtained a substantial following which keeps getting bigger. PodChatLive is viewed as among the many ways that podiatrists can usually get totally free professional education points.

One of the shows that was well-liked had been a conversation with a couple of foot orthotic lab owners regarding the market and just how they connect with the podiatry professions. Foot orthotics labs happen to be in the business of helping to make customized foot orthotics which Podiatrists use for the clients. The lab proprietors in that show were Artur Maliszewski (from the Footwork Podiatric Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia) and Martin McGeough (from Firefly Orthoses in Ireland). Craig and ian talked about what life is like at the orthotic labs. They talked briefly about how they personally made the journey from being Podiatry practitioners to lab owners along with other topics such as their labs involvement in research. There was clearly additionally a very helpful talk about the choices of their customers in relation to negative impression capture methods such as the plaster of paris versus optical scanning. Also of interest was how many clients still must use the notorious “lab discretion” tick on orthotic forms.