Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess medical students' perceptions regarding learning, teachers, academics, atmosphere at campus and social self-perceptions at Dow University of Health Sciences using Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) Inventory. METHOD: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted from March 1(st), 2022 to September 30(th), 2022. All medical students at Dow University of Health Sciences were offered to participate. All students were given the choice to respond to DREEM questionnaire via online Form or printed copy anonymously. The DREEM Inventory measures five domains of students' perceptions of a given institution. Comparison of responses between different years and institution was carried out by χ(2) test. Means scores were compared by Student's t-test and ANOVA, p-value of ≤.05 was taken as significant. RESULTS: Total of 1054 out of 1750 (60.23%) students submitted fully completed forms and were included, out of these 632 (60.0%) belonged to Dow Medical College & 422 (40.0%) belonged to Dow International Medical College. The mean ±SD of total score of DREEM by DMC students was 100.07 ±31.46 and that of DIMC was 100.52 ±32.73. According to DREEM Global scoring both colleges scores fell into category of "many problems". Analysis according to domains showed that maximum score was given to 2(nd) domain of their "perception regarding teachers" and minimum score was allocated to 5(th) domain regarding "social self-perceptions". CONCLUSION: Overall Students perceived environment at DUHS as "many problems" category. This needs to be investigated for betterment of Educational Environment (EE) at campus.