Charter, Accreditations, and Testamurs

Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College is incorporated in Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Eastern Caribbean Basin. The College limits its activities to the provisions of its charter application: To verify original source credentials and issue diplomas or certificates of equivalency to qualified US and Canadian educated and licensed pharmacists, physicians, and other similarly-situated health care professionals.

All applicants for services offered by Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College hold entry-level degrees from accredited US and Canadian health care professional programs. Accrediting agencies include but are not limited to the Liaison Committee of Medical Education (LCME), the American Osteopathic Association’s Council on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA), the Accreditation Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), and Canadian Council on Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP).

All applicants for services offered by Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College have or have held unrestricted licenses to practice their health care professions in a US or Canadian jurisdiction. These licenses were issued after the applicants successfully passed standardized licensure examinations.

All applicants who are physicians and surgeons either are board certified in a specialty accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); or are, or were, eligible to sit for a specialty board examination offered by an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification board or AOA certification board.

Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College issues diplomas or certificates of equivalency to qualified US and Canadian health care professionals. The testamurs from Saints Cosmas and Damian Health Sciences College acknowledge that the diplomates have achieved equivalent qualification standards by US and Canadian licensure authorities that are widely-recognized by the professions and the public. For example, the Pharmaciae Doctor testamur text reads in English translation: “Be it known that [diplomate’s name] having successfully completed a Prescribed and Accredited Course of Study according to the custom of the art, and having obtained Pharmacy Licensure by Examination, and having Equivalency of Credentials confirmed by a Board of Examiners, is admitted a Doctor of Pharmacy with all the Rights, Privileges, and Honors thereto appertaining.”