Undergraduate Medical Student' Perception of Educational Environment in Anesthesia Course based on Dreem

Authors

  • วรียา วงศ์พานิช Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
  • โรจนรินทร์ โกมลหิรัญ Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14456/jmu.2020.20

Keywords:

Educational Environment, Undergraduate Medical Student, Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) Questionnaire

Abstract

          The purpose of this research is to study the perception of Undergraduate Medical Students on the Educational Environment in Anesthesia Course. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The five subscales 50-item DREEM questionnaire was administered to the 5th year undergraduate medical students in Academic year 2016-2017 who completed at all 3 weeks studying their clinical rotations in department of Anesthesia faculty of medicine Ramathibodi Hospital.

          The results found that there were 128 of 149undergraduate medical students responded completed questionnaires to the inventory (response rate 85.90%). The overall total mean DREEM score was 143.09/200 (71.5%) which indicated more positive than negative perceptions. With regards to the assessment of each subdomain, perceptions of teachers was highest with mean percentages of 75.93 (mean score 33.41/44). Instead, Students’social self-perception was the lowest (mean score 18.82/28, 67.21%).

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2020-12-18

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