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Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The educational environment plays a very important role in determining the overall performance of students. The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of undergraduate medical students about their educational environment in a Nigerian university. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10127499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37113428 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_987_22 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The educational environment plays a very important role in determining the overall performance of students. The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of undergraduate medical students about their educational environment in a Nigerian university. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an observational, cross-sectional study conducted among final-year (600 level) undergraduate medical students. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire was used for the study to assess the educational environment of the medical students. RESULTS: A total number of 100 final-year (600 level) undergraduate medical students participated in the study, out of which 27 (27.0%) were males and 73 (73.0%) were females with a male-to-female ratio of 0.37 to 1. The age range of the respondents was 21–30 years with a mean (±SD) of 23.54 (±1.403). The total mean DREEM score was 116.2/200. The total score of SPL domain was 30.2/48 (62.9%). The total score of SPT domain was 27.3/44 (62.0%), while that of SASP was 19.2/32 (60.0%). The total score of SPA domain was 26.6/48 (55.4%) and that of SSP was 13.1/28 (46.8%). For the SPL, SPT, SASP, and SPA domains, the score was above 50%. However, for the SSP domain the score was less than 50%. CONCLUSIONS: The total mean DREEM score in this study was 116.2/200, more positives than negatives, with the students' social perspective having the least domain score. There is a need to provide adequate social support system for medical students in general and particularly for those who get stressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-101274992023-04-26 Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria Oguntoye, Oluwatosin O. J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: The educational environment plays a very important role in determining the overall performance of students. The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of undergraduate medical students about their educational environment in a Nigerian university. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an observational, cross-sectional study conducted among final-year (600 level) undergraduate medical students. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire was used for the study to assess the educational environment of the medical students. RESULTS: A total number of 100 final-year (600 level) undergraduate medical students participated in the study, out of which 27 (27.0%) were males and 73 (73.0%) were females with a male-to-female ratio of 0.37 to 1. The age range of the respondents was 21–30 years with a mean (±SD) of 23.54 (±1.403). The total mean DREEM score was 116.2/200. The total score of SPL domain was 30.2/48 (62.9%). The total score of SPT domain was 27.3/44 (62.0%), while that of SASP was 19.2/32 (60.0%). The total score of SPA domain was 26.6/48 (55.4%) and that of SSP was 13.1/28 (46.8%). For the SPL, SPT, SASP, and SPA domains, the score was above 50%. However, for the SSP domain the score was less than 50%. CONCLUSIONS: The total mean DREEM score in this study was 116.2/200, more positives than negatives, with the students' social perspective having the least domain score. There is a need to provide adequate social support system for medical students in general and particularly for those who get stressed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10127499/ /pubmed/37113428 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_987_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Education and Health Promotion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Oguntoye, Oluwatosin O. Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title | Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title_full | Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title_short | Medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in Southwest Nigeria |
title_sort | medical students’ perceptions of the educational environment in a private medical school in southwest nigeria |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10127499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37113428 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_987_22 |
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