This is the one you asked for. No request has reached us more often than this one — from many, many students, over many months: give us a book. Something to read, hold and revise from, not only a question bank. So we built it. Today we are publishing the passMCQ books — 114 diseases, 17 pharmacy management topics and a complete calculations workbook, covering the whole of PEBC Qualifying Examination Part 1 in one library. Five printed volumes. 1,539 pages. And, from day one, a complete French edition.

If you have been preparing with a question bank, you already know the gap it leaves. It tells you whether you know something. It cannot tell you what to read when the answer is no. That gap is where most people lose weeks — hopping between a textbook written for another country, a guideline PDF, and someone's notes from three years ago. These books close it. Everything you need is in one place, written for Canadian practice, and organised so that finding it takes seconds rather than an evening.

What is actually in it

The therapeutics half is 114 chapters across 17 clinical sections, from cardiovascular through to public health. Every chapter is built to the same shape, and that shape is the point: how the condition presents, what it is commonly mistaken for, the red flags that mean refer rather than treat, how the drug classes genuinely compare, a treatment algorithm, and the details most often examined. Once you have read three chapters, you know where on the page each of those lives — so under time pressure you are navigating a familiar structure rather than reading an unfamiliar essay.

The management half is 17 topics: the Canadian healthcare system and who pays for what, drug regulation and market entry, controlled substances, professional practice and ethics, compounding, medication safety, and critical appraisal from first principles. The calculations workbook is 10 chapters, 100 worked examples solved line by line, 100 practice questions, a mixed final assessment and a full answer key, with formula cards opening every chapter.

All of it is written for Canadian practice: Canadian products, Canadian dosing, Canadian guidelines. That sounds obvious until you sit an exam having revised from a US reference and meet a threshold that does not apply here.

Made to be used, not just read

Each body system carries its own colour as a band on the fore edge, so a printed volume falls open at the section you want without an index. Every chapter counts down the pages remaining in it at the foot of the page, so you always know whether you are starting something you can finish before you stop. The printed set is five perfect-bound or coil-bound volumes, US Letter on 80 lb coated paper, printed and posted from within Canada. Coil opens flat on a desk, which is what most people want beside a laptop.

The electronic edition is the same book as a PDF, watermarked to your name and yours to keep — not a subscription, not a rental, and not something that stops working when a term ends.

In French, in full

The entire library is available in Canadian French — all 114 chapters, all 17 management topics and the calculations workbook, 1,702 printed pages. It is a translation for Canadian practice rather than a transliteration: statutes carry their official French names, drug names take their French forms, and the clinical vocabulary follows what is actually used in Quebec practice. Candidates sitting Part 1 in French have had to revise from English references for a long time. They no longer have to.

What it costs

The complete collection is $239 as a PDF and from $329 printed; single subjects start at $49. Print adds delivery, quoted live before you pay rather than estimated afterwards. Every option shows what it adds to the price as you choose it, so nothing appears at checkout that you did not agree to on the way there.