There is a weekly livestream called PodChatLive for the regular professional growth and learning of Podiatrists and various health professionals who might be keen on the foot and connected issues. PodChatLive is sent out live on Facebook and after that it is edited to further improve the product quality and then uploaded to YouTube in order to reach a wider audience. Each livestream has a unique guest or number of guests to talk about a unique issue in each livestream. Issues have been answered live by the hosts and guests while in the live on Facebook. There's also a PodCast version of each show found on iTunes as well as Spotify and the other common podcast services that gets uploaded following the original video. The hosts created a large following that keeps getting more popular. PodChatLive can be regarded as one of the ways in which podiatry practitioners might get free professional development hours or continuing education credits.
The range of topics is pretty diverse. In the second livestream whilst the notion of the stream was still being designed, the two hosts were asked a live question that they did not feel experienced enough to respond to, so for the following livestream that they had on their first guest that was really the start of the PodChatLive format. That first guest was Chris Bishop from Adelaide in Australia who's a specialist on the 3D analysis of gait or the assessment of the way that people run or walk making use of state-of-the-art systems. The show discussed the advantages of and disadvantages of these techniques for use by podiatrists and the expenses involved with establishing a facility to complete a high level 3D analysis of gait. The problem of how much the setup costs in connection to the enhancement in clinical outcomes was a fundamental part of that debate. Chris was definitely a valuable guest and helped the hosts to test the format of having a guest on from another location during a live show.