Frequently Asked Questions

We are pioneering in the service for about 21+ years with a successful and growing association - Philippines Medical Students’ Indian Parents Welfare Association ®. It shows our long-standing service with genuine efforts and sincerity. Vaagai Educare has a highly qualified and dedicated team that takes care of career guidance, admission guidance, visa process, financial guidance, pre- departure orientation, and travel & accommodation. VEC provides counseling and coaching for NEET, NExT / FMGE, and USMLE examinations.

The Philippine educational system is majorly practical medical learning and computer-based multiple-choice questions examinations. And the evaluation system is objectively based, which is in contrast to the Indian school or college level evaluation system. As the competitive exam model followed in India, it is beneficial for the students to crack FMGE or any other national-level qualifying examination.

The cost of fees paid per year to study MBBS in a medical college in India is an immense amount to be spent on a medical degree, food and accommodation for the entire 5.6 - 5.8 years in the Philippines.

No, As the local population speaks English in the country, there is no need to clear any language examinations like TOFEL or ILETS to study in the Philippines. 

The students appearing for NEET can calculate their NEET score by themselves with the help of the answer key.

They can arrive at the most likely the exact NEET marks by verifying their given answers with the correct answers in the answer key. The marking scheme used by the National Testing Agency (NTA) to evaluate the NEET answer sheets, 2020 is mentioned below,

• For each correct answer given by the student, 4 marks are awarded. · 1 mark is deducted for each wrong answer given by the student from the cumulative scores he/she has obtained
• No mark is deducted for the un-answered questions, and the questions answered more than 1 option
• Overall total number questions asked in the NEET exam is 180 and as 4 marks are awarded for each answered correctly question, the total NEET score is 180 x 4 = 720 marks.
• So, the student can calculate his/her anticipated score using the formula given below, NEET score = (total number of correct answers given x 4) – (total number of wrong answers given x 1)

• (MBBS) M.D. from BCM, DMSFI, and UVGCM demands a certain amount of financial security for which Vaagai Educare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. has plenty of options such as student scholarships, payment on installments, and education loans.
• Student scholarships are often offered based on the student’s academic performance and excellence.
• VEC helps you with availing of an educational loan from national and approved banks at reasonable rates. We guide you through the application to the required documentation, policies, procedures, interest rates, and eligibility criteria at your preferred bank.

Yes, you can appear for NMC's NExT/FMGE examination once you graduate from AAIMS, BCM, DFMSI, and UVGCM. Once you pass the FMGE, you can register yourself in NMC and start practising in both government and private hospitals in India.

VEC has sent 1000+ students to AAIMS, BCM, DFMSI, and UVGCM who have successfully graduated with M.D. degree and practising in both government and private hospitals in all parts of India. For example; Apollo Hospitals, CMC, Vellore, Meenakshi Mission Hospital, Madurai and many other hospitals across India.

National Medical Commission to meet the primary purpose of establishing a uniform standard of higher qualifications in medicine and recognition of medical requirements from the medical universities in both India and abroad. It also provides permanent and provisional registration of doctors graduated with recognised medical degrees. It recognises the medical colleges and their qualifying degrees in India as to facilitate the reciprocity with foreign countries in understanding and to accept the Indian medical degrees in mutual interest.

Yes, Once, the student completes M.D. and return to India; they must pass FMGE – Foreign Medical Graduate Examinations, is mandatory for the MBBS students, graduated from Indian medical institutions, to practise in India.

Every country has its geographical conditions, vegetations, lifestyle, food habits, climatic conditions, the prevalence of diseases, and health plans regulated by the government. So, the foreign medical graduates to understand the criteria mentioned above to practise in India and to ensure the safe medical practices being provided to the patients, the National Medical Commission conducts a qualifying exam known as FMGE.

FMGE or Foreign Medical Graduate Examination is a licensing examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations (NBE). It licenses an Indian citizen or OCI to practise in India by registering with the National Medical Commission (NMC) or State Medical Council (SMC) after completing his/her primary medical qualification from an institution outside India.

Foreign Medical Graduates from any university from any country should clear the FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduate Examination) to register their degree (should be recognised by India) with NMC (National Medical Commission) to get the license to practise in India. And this qualifying examination can be attempted any number of times by any medical graduate if he/she couldn’t clear the exam, the last time.

The students sent by Vaagai Educare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. are insisted continuously about the importance of the qualifying examinations, preferred career paths and most importantly, we treat them as a family, and so they become a part of Philippines Medical Students’ Indian Parents Welfare Association ®. In the association meetings, the students get the remarkable opportunity to interact with their seniors and practising Doctors, who explain the techniques and methods to prepare for the exam.

Moreover, the AAIMS, BCM, DFMSI, and UVGCM follows the practical learning and computer-based Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) pattern Examination system. Vaagai Educare provides counseling and coaching for NEET, NExT / FMGE, and USMLE examinations, or any other qualifying examinations with ease.

In 2019, the Government of India had announced that there is going to be an All India final exam for medical students, replacing NEET PG & FMG exams. The government has introduced the NExT or National Exit Test, based on the proposal of National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, which would come into practise by 2023.

NExT is purely intended to serve as the final and exit exam of all MBBS graduates from India and Abroad. It is designed to test the basic skills and concepts essential to practise medicine in India, which turned out to be a two-phase exam. The first phase exam consists (MCQ) Multiple Choice Questions and the second phase is a practical test which would be conducted after the completion of medical internship.

NExT is the licensure examination in India, similar to USMLE in the U.S., to avoid unauthorised Doctors in the country.

You need to get qualified by 3 stage - USMLE (United States Medical License Examination) in The United States of America, to practice or to do higher medical degree programs in the country. You can start attending the USMLE exams since the 3rd year of your M.D. Course.

Yet, the students from BCM, DFMSI, and UVGCM have been cracking the exam well as they undergo clinical rotations and lab trails more often. These lab sessions with advanced technology and under the supervision of expert Doctors with 3D Anatomage, Simulation lab, Virtual Reality Anatomy and Physiology lab and many others, benefit the students to gain hands-on experience. Additionally, they get chances to get trained by experienced Doctors in different clinical settings in various hospitals.

Of course! Yes, Vaagai Educare takes the students’ parents on a campus visit at Davao medical college, Philippines. Vaagai Educare wants to build a harmonious relationship between VEC, DMSFI and our students and parents. We take parents to the Davao Medical School Foundation Inc and the Indian Hostel to experience a friendly environment in which their sons and daughters are. The parents will be served the hostel mess food. Thus, the parents get a chance to tour the country with fellow parents, and we rejoice the entire VEC tour to the Philippines.

We are available to our students and their families to answer all your queries and to support you in all possible means, we could. And as a gesture, we have our own Vaagai Educare's Philippines Medical Students’ Indian Parents Welfare Association ® through which we connect with our students and their families, thrice a year.

VEC as an authenticated admission mentor at BCM, DFMSI, and UVGCM we visit the campus and the hostels, regularly to ensure conducive learning environment, healthy and hygienic school and hostel, and also to meet the demand of the hour with the college and the hostel.

Moreover, VEC shares the academic performance, attendance, and health status of a student to his/her parents, every month during the entire course period.

We have 2000+ Doctors, students and their families as a part of our Philippines Medical Students’ Indian Parents Welfare Association ® as we stand for efforts and reliability in all our best-rendered services, knowing the value of your time, trust and ambition. VEC also takes our parents to Davao City to ensure that they are satisfied with the safe and secured college campus and hostel.

Vaagai maintains continual relationships with our parents and students, all through the course period of the students and after. We aim at building regular concordance with the students and their families through our services, best rendered.

Vaagai Educare wants to be transparent even on the grounds of its limitations as we are interested in building a healthy relationship with the students and parents. Being transparent in all possible aspects is the crucial factor for VEC running the Philippines Medical Students’ Indian Parents Welfare Association® for several years, now. Almost 2000+ Parents, Doctors and students are with us.

Vaagai Educare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. would not be able to serve you in matters related to foreign affairs, criminal actions, college policies and low attendance and performance.

AAIMS follows problem-based learning methods and awards ECFMG certificate along with MD degree in just 4.8 years. It allows the students to be on the fast-track route to practise in the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia, India and other major countries. AAIMS encourages the students to do their clinical rotations in the above-mentioned countries to boast the chances of getting placed in the country, the students prefer.

Moreover, VEC shares the academic performance, attendance, and health status of a student to his/her parents, every month during the entire course period.

Absolutely not! There is no need to clear any language examinations such as Toefl or ielts. It is satisfactory to accept your admission if you are instructed in English, in the school.

(MBBS) M.D. from AAIMS demands a certain amount of financial security for which Vaagai Educare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. has plenty of options such as student scholarships, payment on instalments and education loans.

Student scholarships are often offered based on the student’s academic performance and excellence.

VEC helps you with availing an educational loan from national and approved banks at reasonable rates. We guide you through the application to required documentation, policies, procedures, interest rates and eligibility criteria at your preferred bank.

Yes, indeed! You can practise in the US.

You can start attending the USMLE exams since the 2nd year of your M.D. Course which is mandatory for the student to obtain ECFMG certificate in the first place to get honoured from AAIMS with MD degree. Vaagai Educare Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. provides counseling and coaching for USMLE examinations.

Additionally, AAIMS encourages the students to do the clinical rotations in any one of the affiliated hospitals in Jamaica, US & UK to increase the chances of the students to practise US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia, India and other major countries.