TITLE:
Assessment of the Environment with DREEM at a Medical School Using Active Methodologies and an Integrated Curriculum
AUTHORS:
Joaquim Edson Vieira, José Lucio Martins Machado, Sandra Maria Alessandri Ribeiro
KEYWORDS:
Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Social Environment, Program Evaluation, Problem-Based Learning
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.6 No.17,
October
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: This research presents an analysis of the University City of São Paulo (UNICID) medical school teaching and learning environment, a school in Brazyl which employs active methodologies. A total of three hundred and ninety one students participated voluntarily in the research, being one hundred and fifty five students on its first phase, in the year of 2006, and two hundred and thirty six students in 2009. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) has been employed for accessing an evaluation of UNICID medical school academic environment. The DREEM questionnaire consists on 50 items assessing the school’s educational environment in five dimensions, to which scores have been attributed. A maximum of 200 points have been ascribed according to each dimension: Perception of Learning (with 12 items and maximum score of 48 points), Perception of Teaching (with 11 items and maximum score of 44 points), Academic Self-perception (with 8 items and maximum score of 32 points), Perception of the Environment (with 12 items and maximum score of 48 points) and Social Self-perception (with 7 items and maximum score of 28 points). The higher the score reaches, the more positively can be regarded the results. As the results show, the score increases in the second phase of the research. Each dimension will be analyzed separately and the differences in scores between them will be explained.