Which med school pathway would be easier?

Sorry I can't comment on the Irish Med Schools, but I do know that transferring from a med school, even in the UK, to another med school is pretty much impossible so I'm assuming it will be the same for transferring from an Irish Med School to UK Med School. Maybe @becausethenight might be able to shed some more light on this.

With regards to the Aberdeen Foundation Year, I would not gamble a year on their transfer to med course, because as you said it's insanely competitive and it's more of a lottery system rather than a definitive place in Med School and you're still paying the yearly fee of having a chance to transfer to med. I would avoid this and take a gap year and apply again to get into A100 medicine course.

I really don't know enough about Ireland to comment, really.
If you know you want to work in the UK, it's usually easiest to study where you want to work. As above I don't think it's possible to transfer from an Irish to a UK med school, unless they have a pre-established transfer pathway, but you may be able to start FY in the UK after graduating in Ireland?

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Well, do you know the competitiveness of foundation courses of getting into med school? I just want to know among a class of students how many can typically enter med school.

So, do you know the med school foundation year enough to make such a judgement though, because the competitiveness is just my assumption.

The thing is, all the foundation courses are different!
Does Abderdeen release any data? Are you guaranteed progression onto the medical course or is it competitive?

I had a quick look and it seems like an internal transfer course where you need 82% in 4 modules and 68% in 2 modules to be given a chance of applying to their medicine course and ofc you'll have to put in a personal statement, UCAT (Might be BMAT for Aberdeen not too sure), then if the applicant is successful you can get an interview.

Sorry I can't comment on the Irish Med Schools, but I do know that transferring from a med school, even in the UK, to another med school is pretty much impossible so I'm assuming it will be the same for transferring from an Irish Med School to UK Med School. Maybe @becausethenight might be able to shed some more light on this.

With regards to the Aberdeen Foundation Year, I would not gamble a year on their transfer to med course, because as you said it's insanely competitive and it's more of a lottery system rather than a definitive place in Med School and you're still paying the yearly fee of having a chance to transfer to med. I would avoid this and take a gap year and apply again to get into A100 medicine course.

The run through 6 year Foundation courses are good because you just do an additional year and then you're doing medicine for the next 5 years. Once you get into these you're guaranteed a spot for medicine rather than worrying about transferring and stuff like that.

There's a couple of universities that do it such as Southampton, UEA, Hull York from the top of my head. But these aren't open to everyone you have to meet the widening participation criteria for their course. You can find these on the universities websites.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

Idk but these two paragraphs are a bit contradictory haha

Also, the agent that is responsible for my application said the progression rate of the university was 95% but I'm a bit sceptical of her data.

Any idea on the percentage of students succeeding in getting into med school through the foundation year? And do you mind giving me the source?

The run through 6 year Foundation courses are good because you just do an additional year and then you're doing medicine for the next 5 years. Once you get into these you're guaranteed a spot for medicine rather than worrying about transferring and stuff like that.

There's a couple of universities that do it such as Southampton, UEA, Hull York from the top of my head. But these aren't open to everyone you have to meet the widening participation criteria for their course. You can find these on the universities websites.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

I spoke to a few people doing the UEA foundation Med course when I administered their Covid vaccine, and they said they can progress into the medical degree as long as they get over 70% in their exams at the end of foundation year. So it’s not guaranteed, but should be doable!
In a online open day for UEA Med the admissions team also said the vast majority of foundation year students do progress into the medical degree.

I spoke to a few people doing the UEA foundation Med course when I administered their Covid vaccine, and they said they can progress into the medical degree as long as they get over 70% in their exams at the end of foundation year. So it’s not guaranteed, but should be doable!
In a online open day for UEA Med the admissions team also said the vast majority of foundation year students do progress into the medical degree.