The faculty I met and a few of them who are on MD admissions were some of the most amazing I've seen. I can say I never expected them to be so awesome and nice because people always give top tier and mid tier schools this bad rep of hostile personalities and what not. I know one of the schools that has in past years been close in rankings to what Bu is now in Fl. is a school that gets such a bad rep. So I was expecting such from BU. But instead was shocked to see some of the best and most amazing faculty ever.
As an example, one of the assistant deans of admissions teaches Histology and she has models to describe things. Like she used a toilet paper roll to show a model of osteons and sponges and toothpicks and some other stuff to show models of the intercellular junctions that hold together cells and things like microvilli. and another professor used apples to show the idea of cooperativity in hemoglobin one day and the conformational change that goes with the movement from the deoxy to the oxy state of such.
This kind of creativity was never shown in my old school where professors were far more fond of powerpoints. At least from what I saw they really do care about how they teach you and one of the focuses of the neuroscience department from which most of the histology and anatomy and neuroscience course professors comes from is to examine how medical students learn and develop more effective methods of training and teaching medical students.
So in short to answer your question, I'd say the faculty really do care for the most part from the bit of the first year faculty I met.
Slowbutsteady,
If you are out there you can also comment on the 2nd and 3rd year faculty as I don't know much about such. Especially hearing your input about how clinicals are at BU would be interesting.
to you!
