DUNDEE READY EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT MEASURE (DREEM) TOOL: PERCEPTION OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN A MEDICAL COLLEGE OF INDIA
AbstractBackground: In the present era of quality accreditation, considering the quality of medical education is also very important, especially in developing countries. The present study was planned to understand the current state of medical education and explore medical students’ perception of their learning environment so that problem areas can be identified both at the institutional and curriculum level. Methods: DREEM tool was circulated to all willing participants from first to final-year MBBS students. Data was collected and analyzed using recent SPSS software. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate mean, standard deviation, and minimum and maximum values. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was calculated, and p< 0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: An overall score of 111.76 (55.88%) out of 200 was obtained indicating ‘more positive than negative’. The overall mean score was 2.21±0.58, which is interpreted as an ‘educational aspect that could be enhanced’. Out of five domains, students’ perception of teachers scored the maximum (57.95 %) rating while students’ social self-perception scored the least (49.35 %). The relationship between students and domain is insignificant for teachers, academics, and sociality (p-value = 0.088, 0.290, and 0.30) but significant for learning and atmosphere (p-value = 0.039 and 0.018). Conclusions: Overall institute is propagating in the right direction. There is an urgent need for training and retraining of teachers and the DREEM scoring survey should be adopted in all medical colleges as an annual scoring system so that the level of medical education could be elevated.
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IJPSR
Monica Verma *, Abhishek Soni, Asha Kumari, Ashuma Sachdeva and Ramesh Verma
Department of Biochemistry, Pt BDS PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
monisoni26@gmail.com
15 May 2023
15 July 2023
21 November 2023
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.15(1).137-44
01 January 2024