DUNDEE READY EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT MEASURE: ANALYSIS IN A SAMPLE OF SAUDI MEDICAL STUDENTS
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Keywords
DREEM, Educational Environment, Medical Students, Perception
Abstract
Objective: The educational environment should be evaluated regularly for quality improvement purposes of medical curricula. Objective of the study was to measure students' perceptions of educational environment.
Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study reports data from 265 medical students of the College of Medicine, Saudi Arabia using Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM).
Results: Grand score of DREEM was 124.4 out of 200. The total mean score for Perception of Learning was 30.40/48; for Perceptions of Teaching 26.35/44; for Academic Self Perceptions 21.32/32; for Perceptions of Atmosphere 29.99/48 and for Social Self Perceptions 16.34/28. Highest mean score was for the item 10 (I am confident about passing this year) which was 3.55. Item 3 (There is a good support system for students who get stressed) got the lowest mean score of 1.96 followed by item 27 (I am able to memorize all I need) which had mean score of 2.05.
Conclusion: Strong student support system to manage stress and memorizing the course content is required.
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Farida Habib Khan
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ha’il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.