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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Perspectives in Medical Research</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2348-229X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">2348-1447</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47799/pimr.1103.11</article-id>
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          <bold id="strong-65319f83964547f8901f7a0064211c27">Study to assess perceptions of the Educational Environment among medical undergraduate students using the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM)</bold>
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          <name id="name-f1c962d613d04e51a5b9253a2d3d42cb">
            <surname>Inamdar</surname>
            <given-names>I F</given-names>
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          <email>ifinamdar123@gmail.com</email>
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          <name id="name-5bc2785630b840aca1a06ddf61e3a360">
            <surname>Chaudhari</surname>
            <given-names>Sonali</given-names>
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        <aff id="aff-d8a8fc7498c04084b675ed63b3cfec40">
          <institution>Associate professor, Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College</institution>
          <addr-line>Vishnupuri, Nanded</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-82e440cfddd2">
          <institution>Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi Meghe, DMIHER, Wardha</institution>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2023</year>
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      <volume>11</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>57</fpage>
      <lpage>63</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>13</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>25</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
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        <copyright-statement>©2023 Inamdar IF et al. This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
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      <abstract id="abstract-abstract-title-878f14710daa46e6b086907f692e1c27">
        <title id="abstract-title-878f14710daa46e6b086907f692e1c27">Abstract</title>
        <p id="paragraph-62bcca7546be4ee5b9e58bf16dfd79fd"><bold id="strong-4f07660ebbd846a6819d3c3ca2b08da3">Background: </bold>The educational environment can be described as the atmosphere perceived by the students and teachers. It affects the transfer/acquisition of knowledge and skills needed in training medical students. Assessing the Educational environment of medical schools is a current global trend and has even been suggested by the National Medical Commission. The DREEM tool is a widely accepted and globally validated instrument for assessing the educational environment in undergraduate medical institutions and has five subscales including perceptions of learning, perceptions of teachers, academic self-perceptions, perceptions of the environment and social self-perceptions. DREEM is a valid tool in referring to deficient areas in the learning process. <bold id="strong-fa5aef9c61204a339d4ff332e17ea309">Objective: </bold>To assess the student’s perception of the educational environment using the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire among undergraduate medical students. <bold id="strong-fdb625a5089e49e9a20cfc822e1dd5fc">Methodology: </bold>A Cross-sectional study was conducted at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded from January 2022 to December 2022 among 450 first to final-year MBBS students using the DREEM inventory scale. <bold id="strong-7e1c07039bf24dffaa45a1d88fc2cff6">Results: </bold>The first-year students perceived the Educational environment most positively, with the highest global DREEM score of 120/200. The global scores of the 4th-year students were the lowest. The highest scores were recorded for the Student's perceptions of learning (SPL) domain (34.19/48, 71.23%), followed by student's academic self-perceptions (SASP) (22.21/32, 69.41%), student's perceptions of atmosphere (SPA) (32.25/48, 67.19%), student's perceptions of teachers (SPT) (30.48/44, 69.27%). <bold id="strong-7a28c965dbfc43e0850206688d76916d">Conclusion: </bold>The undergraduate medical student's perception of the educational environment is positive and there is scope for improvement and some general measures like improvement of student's accommodation, inclusion of stress relieving measures in the curriculum, encouragement of extra-curricular activities etc.</p>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>DREEM</kwd>
        <kwd>educational environment</kwd>
        <kwd>Dundee ready scale</kwd>
        <kwd>Nanded</kwd>
        <kwd>Adult Learning</kwd>
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      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement>None</funding-statement>
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