The Podiatry profession in Malta is a relatively new area of heath care treatment as compared with other health professions with the first graduate students with outside qualifications only becoming state licensed in the late eighties. During the late 1980's and early 90's although the need of beginning an Association for Podiatrists was acknowledged the volume of Podiatrists was nonetheless small and so a common representative group never came to fruition originally. During the late nineties for the reason that University of Malta opened up more Podiatry positions the volume of Podiatry practitioners accelerated and therefore the prospect of forming a uniting organization for all these podiatrists was slowly becoming a concrete and factual suggestion. The Association of Podiatrists of Malta was established in 1999 and is the specialist organisation that represents Podiatry practitioners practising in the Podiatry career in Malta. Dr. Alfred Gatt was the very first leader of the organization.
Alfred Gatt teamed up with Cynthia Formosa for an edition of PodChatLive to chat about the podiatry profession in Malta in addition to their common research projects. PodChatLive is a monthly live show on Facebook hosted by Craig Payne from Australia along with Ian Griffith from England. Alfred and Cynthia teach on the podiatry training course at the University of Malta. Throughout the discussion they discussed learning in Malta, that given the weather and also the low costs appears like a very alluring chance of quite a few. They presented a lot of the enormous research productivity they have been involved with regarding the diabetic foot, particularly if you think about the size of the division at the university. Cynthia and Alfred discussed why you may choose to take into consideration toe pressures as opposed to the ABPI, and in addition consider treating yourself to a thermal digital camera as part of a diabetes assessment. They got a great deal of wonderful pictures displaying of lifestyle and working in the island of Malta as well as of their particular research work. There is certainly without a doubt there could be some looking to engage in a higher degree after hearing this PodChatLive