PharmAchieve helps you succeed in the OSCE Exam
PharmAchieve is a leading provider of prepatory courses for the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada's (PEBC) OSCE exam. Our students come from across Canada and around the globe. All our courses are taught at our 16th floor Bay Street location, across from the stock exchange, in downtown Toronto.

What makes us different:

• Our service orientation -- PharmAchieve is a Baha'i inspired organization founded upon the ideals of service and that "work is worship." Our founders deeply care about the course and their students. This philosophy of caring is reflected in our decision to become the first company in Canada to provide a one student per station policy (see below).


• Our course is designed to provide you with as much practice and feedback as possible. Our course exposes you to 100 cases including 60 practiced with standardized patients. We provide you with more cases than significantly longer courses. For example the University of Toronto CPS Course lasts 4 months but only offers 16 cases with a standardized patient, whereas we offer 60.


• Our 1-student/1-station policy -- During our OSCE, every student is given a private, unshared station at all times. This allows you to practice 20 stations per day -- significantly more than comparable OSCE courses which require you to share stations with other students. To our knowledge we are the only company with standardized patients that offers a 1 student per station policy.


• We closely simulate the OSCE -- We go to great lengths to provide you with a realistic OSCE environment so that the real exam will be a familiar and comfortable experience. Our OSCE environment includes real standardized patients, licensed pharmacist assessors, a private office for every station, real medications, door signs, references, props, patient profiles, and a buzzer sounding at the correct time intervals.


• Our People -- All our standardized patients are current or former members of the standardized patient programs of local medical schools and medical licensing councils. All our assessors are licensed pharmacist from leading hospitals and retail organizations (see lead instructor bios) in positions that require them to counsel patients daily. A number of our assessors teach at the University of Toronto's faculty of Pharmacy IPG CPS course. Many have advanced degrees such as PharmDs. Our team has certifications in Anti-Coagulation, Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Geriatrics and Neonatology.


• Video feedback -- Every day, we videotape students in several OSCE stations. Students who bring a USB key receive a free copy of their videos. In satisfaction surveys, students consistently state that their videos are a highly valuable source of feedback. There is often a remarkable improvement in a student's performance between their first video and their last.


• Our small class sizes and low student to faculty ratio -- Our class size is limited to 19 students. And since we have a standardized patient and licensed pharmacist for every interactive station we have more than twice as many instructors as students in each class. This allows us to provide an exceptional amount of personalized instruction and 1-on-1 coaching.


• Our high pass rate and stellar satisfaction ratings -- Our pass rate of approximately 90% is significantly higher than the published figure of 37% for first time IPG graduates. To date, 98.7% of our students have given us the highest possible overall satisfaction rating of "very satisfied." We are extremely proud of our satisfaction results and are happy to share hard copies of the surveys.