Schools with the best teachers?

[rmalamadingdong]

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Hey all, this is my first post so sorry if i do something the wrong way. Im recently graduated and going to be applying this coming june. I have good stats (37M 3,8GPA 3.99GPASc) and a strong application otherwise. I am really interested in finding a school that will have the best teachers (I know that best is a hard word to use and all schools will have a variety of teachers and that the definition of best is different for different people). I have heard discussion that some of the top ranked schools have famous research doctors who seem disinterested in teaching. I don't wanna pay 40+k a year for someone who is way more into their lab work than teaching me how to be a doctor. Any thoughts, experiences, comments about certain schools? Are there any schools that are known for being very good teaching wise? sorry if this seems a pretty general question.

 

[willen101383]

You will learn once you get to med school that learning is largely on YOU. M1 professors are generally a mix of PhDs and clinicians. Teaching styles vary significantly. Ive had great PhD professors....and terrible ones.

In late M1 and M2 when you are totally on systems and you have pretty much only clinicians. They are trained docs...not teachers. Some are great and some are horrible. But for the most part they want to be there (or they wouldnt be). Ive had great great great clinician lecturers...and really poor ones. As a whole I would say the clinicians are better lecturers than the PhDs. I sort of chalk this up to them being used to talking to/dealing with patients and thus they arent as apprehensive to public speaking.

So that being said, I really dont think you can really narrow down schools based on how good the professors are at teaching. Furthermore "good" is subjective. Ive loved professors that some of my friends have hated and vice versa.

But at the end of the day, as i mentioned above, med school learning is on YOU. Nobody is going to hold your hand like in undergrad. I have only been to 1 week of lecture in the very beginning of M1...and have self taught the rest of my med school curriculum to much success.