He had though about St Andres but ruled out as 6 years.
Well, 6 years in total but only 3 years at St Andrews: you only do a medical science degree at St Andrews, then do 3 years of clinical medicine at Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London (Bart's/QMUL) or Manchester. I realise you almost certainly know that already but just pointing it out for others.
We're hoping to see Edge Hill and Central Lancashire but never see these mentioned on these threads.
They both have peculiarities that mean very few people on this board are likely to have children applying there. Edge Hill only has 30 students in each cohort, and up to 15 of these will be students progressing from their foundation year. UCLan only takes home students (up to 45) from specific areas in north-west England (including Cheshire), along with a larger number of international students.
We've been to Liverpool a few weeks ago and I think he's trying not to have this has a favourite and everyone seems to say due to high interview numbers to avoid.
The interviews:offers ratio is really only a consideration for students applying to medical schools where they know for certain they will get an interview (e.g. because of a very high UCAT score). For everyone else, the important number is the applications:offers ratio. There's no point favouring somewhere that makes offers to a larger proportion of interview candidates if you're unlikely to get an interview there.
he doesn't want PBL and more traditional/integrated style
I did type a bit of a rant about this mythical spectrum of PBL-integrated-"traditional" courses, which is misleading and quite unhelpful, but I won't post it unless people actually want to read it. To summarise, he should be looking at course structures with a much more nuanced view, rather than trying to put them all under one of three heading which won't actually fit any of them.