1 to 4 March 2027 · Chamonix, France · Only 50 places!
Four days of first class podiatry CPD with Dr Ian Reilly. Five nights in the Mont Blanc room at Le Prieuré. Just fifty colleagues in one hotel. You will arrive as strangers and fly home as friends. Come and play in the snow!
The experience
Come to Chamonix for four days of high level podiatry teaching that you can use on Monday morning. Then ski. Then walk into town for a long lunch. Then meet the group again for wine, dinner and the kind of talk that only happens when you are five nights in.
Fifty places. That is the whole room. One host. One hotel. One mountain. The scale is kept small on purpose. Everyone learns your name, hears your questions, drinks with you and stays in touch long after you fly home.
Limited places
Real access
Ask Ian a question during the session. Ask it again at breakfast. Sit beside him on the way up the cable car. There is no closed room. No separate space. Just one surgeon who wants to talk about podiatry with you.
Your crowd
Come with a colleague or come by yourself. Either way, you will know everyone by name before the first dinner ends. Some people bring a friend. Others arrive solo and leave with a group chat that keeps going.
The right mood
Ian is warm, funny and direct. He answers without jargon. He tells the truth about what works in clinic and laughs while he does it. That mood spreads through the whole group. By Thursday, you are a team.
The programme
Sessions run early and late. The middle of every day is free for skiing, sightseeing, the spa, or sleeping off last night.
Monday
1 March
2027
4:00 to 7:00 pm
A practical, evidence informed update covering medical assessment for nail surgery, cauterisation techniques, incisional techniques and managing complications.
7:00 pm
Tuesday
2 March
2027
6:30 to 9:00 am
A focused update on prescription only medicines: legal and ethical considerations, pharmacology, indications beyond the digital block, MSDs, management of LA failure, and medico legal issues.
Time TBA
Lower limb neuroanatomy, practical local anaesthetic technique and how to apply both in clinic.
Wednesday
3 March
2027
6:30 to 8:30 am
A hands on workshop covering practical ultrasound use in podiatry and lower limb assessment.
Time TBA
Scheduled medicines, prescribing considerations, and how to work them into everyday podiatric practice.
Thursday
4 March
2027
4:00 pm
A practical session that builds your confidence in lower limb neurological examination and interpretation.
5:30 pm
Assessment, patient expectations, surgical thinking and treatment pathways, discussed openly.
7:00 pm
Please note: this is a provisional programme. Topics, presenters, formats and session times may be adjusted before the event.
Between sessions
Ski the Grands Montets or the Brévent with new friends. Ride the Aiguille du Midi cable car, six minutes from the hotel door, up to 3,842 metres. Lunch at altitude with a glass of something cold and the whole massif in front of you.
Or slow it right down. A café. A book. A long soak in the spa. Join the group or head out on your own. Both are welcome. No one is counting how you spend the daylight.
Nights in Chamonix
A welcome dinner on the first night. Wine flowing. Someone already telling their best clinic story. By Tuesday you know everyone. By Thursday you are planning next year.
After sessions the group spills into Chamonix: the old bars on Rue des Moulins, a fondue in the square, one last round back at the hotel fireplace. Nothing is scheduled. Everything happens.
Your host
Ian is a UK podiatric surgeon with more than three decades in clinic, in theatre and in front of a lecture hall. A Fellow of the Royal College of Podiatry, he practises in Northampton and teaches across the UK and abroad on foot surgery, local anaesthesia, prescribing and evidence based podiatry.
He is the author of core textbooks on the subject and one of the most booked CPD tutors working today. His sessions are direct, clinically honest, and full of what actually works when the door opens and the patient sits down.
Ian is also warm, approachable and funny. He tells stories. He asks about your practice. He answers questions over coffee, on the lift or in the hotel bar. That is why people return. They come for the CPD and they leave with a new friend.
"The small cohort size made a huge difference. Ian's delivery was engaging, practical and immediately useful in clinic." Helen Jones, inaugural delegate.
The venue
Address
149 Allée du Recteur Payot
74400 Chamonix Mont Blanc
France
A four star chalet hotel in central Chamonix, part of the Best Mont Blanc group. South facing rooms with balconies look straight at the Mont Blanc massif.
Six minutes on foot to the Aiguille du Midi cable car. Restaurant, fireside bar and Cinq Mondes spa on site.
prieurechamonix.com →
Your room
A south facing chalet room with a private balcony that looks straight at Mont Blanc. Bath or Italian shower, chalet décor, flat screen TV and a hospitality tray.
Five nights are included, Sunday through Friday. You can extend your stay direct with the hotel.
What's included
Included
Not included
From the inaugural cohort
"A wonderful first conference in Chamonix and a great chance to meet podiatrists and clinic owners from many countries. Ian's lectures were clinically relevant and gave me several action points to take back to work. I am already looking at next year."
"The small cohort meant every question got answered and every voice got heard. The location was exceptional: focused learning by day, real time to breathe by night."
"The best CPD event I have been to. I came home with real skills I could use in clinic the next week, and with new friends I still call. Book it."
Reserve your place
Podiatry CPD in Chamonix, with accommodation
£1,995
GBP · per delegate
Bookings are open now. Once the fifty places are gone, that is it. No waiting list. No second release.
Secure checkout via Ultimate Podiatrist.
The essentials
Cancellations
Cancellations received on or before 29 October 2026 are refundable less a £50 admin fee. No refunds from 30 October 2026 onwards, including non attendance.
Insurance
Please take out full travel insurance to cover cancellation, illness, travel disruption and personal belongings.
Programme changes
We aim to deliver the programme as advertised. Ultimate Podiatrist and Ian Reilly may adjust session times, topics, presenters or formats where needed.
