Mashhood-uz Zafar Farooq, Shama Mashhood, Homaira Iqbal Khan, Arshad Shaikh, Maria Khan.
Educational Environment: Student Perception as per DREEM Inventory.
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;16(3):708-11.

Objective: To identify the strength and weaknesses in educational environment of the institute as perceived by the students. Method: This cross sectional study was conducted at Karachi Medical and Dental College Karachi during February 2017 to September 2017. Medical students from third to final year were included in the study. Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory was used. Analysis was done through the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Results: A total of 530 completed responses were received from 567 students with a response rate of 93.47%. Male and female students accounted for 36 (6.8%) and 494 (93.2%) respectively. The overall average DREEM score was 115 +/- 24.3. Sub-scale scores for Students Perceptions of Learning, Students Perceptions of Teachers, Students` Academic Self Perception, Students Perceptions of Atmosphere and Students Social Self Perception were 28.6 +/- 6.2, 26.0 +/- 5.0, 19.5 +/- 4.5, 25.9 +/- 5.5, 15.0 +/- 3.1 respectively. Significant association was found between gender and Perceptions of Learning, Perceptions of Teaching and Perceptions of atmosphere, the female students scoring higher than male students. Conclusion: Educational environment was found to be more positive than negative by the medical students.

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