Educational environment in the medical school of a public University: Baseline diagnosis

Abstract

Introduction: The evaluation of the educational environment in medicine provides guidelines for restructuring curricular changes aimed to achieve at achieving a better performance of the student and future professional. In the present study were involved 490 medical students from the Universidad Industrial de Santander. Objetive: To measure the educational environment with the DREEM survey (50 questions about five aspects: perception of learning, perception of teachers, academic self-perception, perception of the environment and social self-perception). We decided to use the DREEM because it’s being the most common survey to gauge the quality of medical education. We found an important diminution in the positive perception of teachers, throughout with the pass of the years of n the medical school; About academic self-perception and learning perception the lowest values were found at the third and sixth year of medical school. Finally the most common activities that medical students kept doing during the years of medical career were the religious and musical activities.