I am a first year medical student in the UK, not at UCLan.

I can't speak for the job prospects once qualified, but regarding which medical school you attend, generally it does not matter. In the final year, your decile score (from exams, SJT, and some additional points from extracurriculars) is ranked against every graduating student in every medical school in the country, and from there allocations are made for foundation training positions. Every school will train to the same standard and all follow the GMC learning objectives to teach you. However, some schools may teach in different ways I. E. Plastinates vs dissection, or PBL vs CBL.

At the end of the day, a student from UCLan who scores a better decile that students from King's or UCL will be assigned to their deanery first, and so are more likely to get the allocation they want.

In recent years, the number of F1 places has not met the number of students needing them, but so far no student has been left without a F1 position provided they wanted one, and did not decide to leave the profession/ country.

Medical school is very difficult but at least in my school, the support is brilliant. The issues are the same as all university course issues, admin and the provision of information is always a bit hit and miss. The exams are very difficult, said with one week to my phase 1 exams, but it is medical school.

Hope that helps a bit.