Meet your Faculty

Our faculty are both surgeons and dedicated educators, focused on maximizing your board exam preparation.

Teaching Professionals

Odysseus Argy, M.D.

Founder & Faculty

Dr. Argy is a surgeon, educator, public speaker, communication and relationship-building coach.

Why trust Odyssey?

Odyssey courses were created to give surgeons the tools they need to pass the exams, and are based on 26+ years of dedicated teaching, proven neuroscientifically-based learning, and post-exam candidate feedback. Your Odyssey faculty have broad experience with the exam, and can identify and correct the common misunderstandings that create difficulties for candidates. In other courses, instructors happen to teach board prep once in a while, and their "experience" is based on having taken the exam themselves, once or twice.

Odyssey teaches you how to take the oral exam based on a surgical paradigm ... learning how to take care of patients and operate ... under experienced guidance.

Master the applied skills and build the confidence you need to pass the exam, regardless of the topics or questions asked by the examiners.

Odyssey's courses offer dynamic learning under experienced guidance, with emphasis on maximizing performance under difficult exam conditions.

Don't settle for other "courses" which only offer prerecorded static content or rote memorization.

Take a look at our numbers

Surgeons taught

Utilizing our methodologies to be fully prepared for how the exam works.

90%+

Pass Rate on the exam for all candidates

The typical exam year has a 75% pass rate across the U.S.

26+

Years of honing teaching

Our courses have adapted over the years, but our commitment to surgeons hasn't.

15K+

Practice scenarios

Our faculty have helped candidates prepare with more than 15,000 practice exam scenarios.

Strong values
Valuable strengths

Simplicity

There is enough complexity in the exams without any added mystery or misunderstanding of exam objectives and skills. Odyssey breaks down the elements of the exams into a manageable form so that candidates can feel fully prepared.

Integrity

Candidates deserve to be given an accurate understanding of the exam process and the applied skills that are required by examiners to pass. Other courses offer anecdotal opinion and promote commonly held exam misperceptions as the basis for preparation.

Collaboration

Learning doesn't happen in isolation. Odyssey faculty act as colleagues and coaches in your learning process. In addition, Odyssey's primary course (the Intensive WorkGroup Course) leverages the added benefit of collaborative learning in a group format.

Thoughtful

We believe you should be treated as an individual, not a number. That means one-size does not fit all. Our courses are built around proven learning methods, cognitive science, and experience, all tapered to best prepare you for your exam.

Excellence

Many prep courses make promises to be cheap and offer short cuts. As we all know, short cuts in surgery compromise outcomes. The same holds true for surgery board preparation. Odyssey believes in doing things right the first time. Each course is built with excellence as our cornerstone.

Innovation

Our courses have changed over the past 26 years to adapt to changes in the exam and integrate new learning techniques. You stay up to date with courses individualized to your needs and calibrated for success.