PodChatLive is the monthly chat show for the regular expert growth of Podiatry practitioners as well as other clincians which might be interested. It is hosted by Ian Griffiths from England in the UK and also Craig Payne from Melbourne in Australia. Craig and Ian stream online each show live via Facebook and after that is soon after edited and submitted to YouTube so that it does get to a diverse audience. Every live episode includes a different person or number of guests to go over a particular area of interest every time. Queries and feedback are generally replied to live by the hosts and guests whilst in the live episode on Facebook. There isn't very much follow up discussion about the YouTube channel. Those of you that enjoy audio only, there is a PodCast version of each episode on iTunes as well as Spotify and the other usual podcast resources for that use. They've already obtained a sizable following which continues getting bigger. PodChatLive can be regarded as one of several ways that podiatry practitioners can usually get totally free professional education points.
One of the episodes that was popular was a discussion with a pair of foot orthotic lab proprietors in regards to the industry and how they interact with the podiatry professions. Foot orthotics labs happen to be in the business of making custom made foot orthotics which Podiatry practitioners make use of for the patients. The laboratory owners in that stream were Artur Maliszewski (from the Footwork Podiatric Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia) and Martin McGeough (from Firefly Orthoses in Ireland). Craig and ian described what every day life is like at the orthoses facilities. They talked briefly on how they individually made the journey from being Podiatrists to lab entrepreneurs and other issues such as their own labs involvement in research. There was also a very helpful conversation about the choices of their customers in relation to negative impression capture approaches such as the plaster of paris vs optical scanning. Also of concern was the number of people even now wish to use the well known “lab discretion” tick on orthoses orders.