期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：802-810
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i1/5482
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：The National Defence University of Malaysia offers a unique medical curriculum, which combines medical syllabus and military training. Medical student’s perception on educational environment offers further insights into students learning needs and improvement of the medical curriculum. This study is to determine the perceptions of the NDUM medical students towards their educational environment. This is a cross sectional study. The Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (Dreem) inventory was distributed to 189 students during the 2015-2016 academic years. The inventory consists of 50 items; scored on a 0-4 likert scale. It has five subdomains including students’ perceptions of: learning, teaching, atmosphere, academic self-perceptions, and social self-perceptions with maximum scores of 200. The response rate was 79.1% (cadets (73.08%) vs civilian (26.92%). The total DREEM score was 138.16/200 (69.3%). Students’ perceptions of: learning, teachers, academic self-perceptions, atmosphere and social self-perceptions scores were 33.34/48(69.4%), 32.6/44(74%), 22.17/32(69.2%), 32.68/48(68%) and 18.02/28(64.3%) respectively. The highest score was “The teachers are knowledgeable” (3.75). The lowest score was “The teaching overemphasizes factual learning” (1.31). Students most preferred learning method was study group (84.1%) while the least preferred learning method was e-learning (12.1%).Medical students in this university have positive perceptions with their educational environment. Some low scoring areas indicate that the learning environment need to be improved. This information may assist the faculty in strategic planning of medical curriculum and sustaining a high quality educational environment for the students. Further research on educational environment is vital in ensuring continuous quality in the academic curriculum.
