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The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada

The Pharmacist Evaluating Examination
General Information

Office Hours

The PEBC office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, for receiving telephone calls and written correspondence by regular mail, email and fax. PEBC is not available for in-person candidate visits. Application forms may not be delivered in person, to the PEBC office.

Note that the office is closed for lunch between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. and no telephone calls are received during the lunch break.

Correspondence

Once you start the PEBC evaluation process, you will be assigned a PEBC Identification Number. Always include your PEBC Identification Number in any correspondence and when contacting the office, whether by phone, fax or email.

Please allow sufficient time to receive a response to any enquiry you make, before contacting the office about the same matter again.

Document Evaluation Approval Deadline Dates

These are the deadline dates for Document Evaluation, that apply to the listed Pharmacist Evaluating Examination dates. Please check and follow all deadline dates carefully.

DOCUMENT EVALUATION DEADLINE DATES

October 9 in order to apply for the January 13 & 14, 2010 Evaluating Examination.

April 9 in order to apply for the July 14 & 15, 2010 Evaluating Examination.

If you wish to be considered for an upcoming scheduled Pharmacist Evaluating Examination, it is recommended that you send in a Pharmacist Evaluating Examination application and fee, at the same time as your application for Pharmacist Document Evaluation.

There are two separate application forms and two separate fees for Pharmacist Document Evaluation and The Pharmacist Evaluating Examination. The fee for Pharmacist Document Evaluation is CAD$530. The fee for The Pharmacist Evaluating Examination is $515 for January 2010.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING RECEIPT OF ALL DOCUMENTS:

All Pharmacist Evaluating Examination applications received at PEBC by the application deadline (as stated above) will be held as “conditional”, until successful completion of your Document Evaluation. If your Document Evaluation materials are NOT submitted completely and correctly by the deadline dates shown above, your examination application will be applied to a future examination date.

Examination Dates

The PEBC Pharmacist Evaluating Examination will be administered twice during the 2009-2010 testing year.

This information booklet pertains only to the Pharmacist Evaluating Examination given on the two dates listed below.

2-DAY FORMAT:

The Pharmacist Evaluating Examination will be held over a two-day period, with a 3.5 hour (half-day) written, multiple-choice question examination sitting held on each of the two days.


PHARMACIST EVALUATING EXAMINATION DATES
(Each administration held over 2 days)

WINTER 2010: January 13 & 14, 2010
Application deadline is October 9, 2009

SUMMER 2010: July 14 & 15, 2010
Application deadline is April 9, 2010

Note that these application deadline dates apply ONLY if:

1) your Document Evaluation has already been approved;
or
2) all the required documents for evaluation, in the correct format, are  received by PEBC by the Evaluating Examination Application deadline shown here, AND if your Document Evaluation is assessed as acceptable. It is recommended that you NOT make your travel arrangements more than one month in advance of the examination date.