GMC Quality Assurance Process
Unlike other degrees where students receive 'honors' (a form of grade) based on their performance throughout the degree, medical degrees are simply pass/fail. This is because doctors require a minimum level of competence in all subjects in order to be considered safe to practice. Ultimately students are either considered good enough to be doctors or not. The result of this system is an extremely high minimal standard across each medical school in the UK. Any school that did not meet this strict standard could theoretically have its license to award medical degrees suspended or even withdrawn. Some people believe that the existence of this high minimal standard implies that the overall quality of teaching must therefore be equivalent at all schools, and no medical schools will tend to teach above the minimal standard.
Employment Prospects
When applying for foundation jobs after medical school junior doctors are essentially mathematically allocated to jobs based on a combination of factors including their academic position within their year at medical school and their response to a series of non-academic situational judgement tests. The institution from which they graduated is not factored into this process and is not known by their potential employers at any point during the application. This is partly because there is no surplus supply or market of doctors and so almost every doctor must be allocated to a job in order to have sufficient nationwide coverage. The effect of medical school choice on career stages after foundation jobs, where alma mater is not blinded, is not known but assumed to be minimal as much more significant factors come into play. For example: extra qualifications, interest in the specialty, research experience and publications, postgraduate qualifications, etc. Medical schools have been found in numerous studies to differ in their pass rates for postgraduate exams (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/6/5). Also, it could be argued that getting research and publication opportunities as a medical student varies between schools.
It may be worth noting that employment prospects abroad may be influenced by the medical school from which you graduate.
What Makes a Good Doctor?
Pinning down which qualities make the 'ideal' doctor (if indeed such a thing exists) is extremely difficult. Medicine contains both academic and vocational components and it is important to remember that in order to be an effective doctor students must be good at both. Traditionally some universities are seen as more academic than others and this is sometimes misinterpreted by applicants as 'prestige'. However being more academic does not necessarily mean being a better doctor, and indeed much evidence (including Tomorrows Doctors) supports the view that students require both a good academic grounding and a strong set of communication and practical skills. It helps if doctors are not only knowledgeable but also empathic and have a kind/welcoming nature. This doesn't mean being a saint but it does mean being patient , as it were, and having a caring nature. Some people believe that the quality of the academic and vocational teaching components will tend to balance each other out, with schools thought to be very academic lagging behind in vocational experience and vice versa, meaning that the overall quality of the doctor produced will be roughly the same at all schools. Ultimately the intrinsic challenge of not knowing what makes the ideal doctor makes it impossible to suggest which is the best medical school.
How you learn?
Each and every medical course is different, with varied teaching methods. How you learn and whether the teaching of the course suits the way you learn is far more important. | 
