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ArticleMedical science educator2021

The Educational Environment Is Warming Up: Response to Changes in a Component of a Medical Curriculum.

Katherine Miles, Abdel-Ellah Al-Shudifat, Mustafa Saad Yousuf

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Article in Medical science educator, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Katherine MilesFaculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0002-2732-4932
Abdel-Ellah Al-ShudifatFaculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0003-4829-0978
Mustafa Saad YousufFaculty of Medicine, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0001-8991-1270

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) is a valid instrument to evaluate the educational environment of institutions. This quantitative study aimed to discover if applying interactive educational approaches to a component of a traditionally taught medical curriculum improved the educational environment, as measured by the DREEM.

methodsThe bilingual Arabic-English DREEM questionnaire was distributed twice to all third-year medical students (273 students) at the Hashemite University in Jordan. The first data collection occurred at the completion of a traditionally taught component of the Neurology module and the second data collection at the end of an interactively taught component of the same module. A paired

resultsThe total DREEM score for the innovative interactive course was 120.04/200 (from 183 questionnaires) and for the traditionally taught course was 114.69/200 (from 198 questionnaires). Of the five DREEM sub-scales, the interactive course scored statistically significantly higher than the traditionally taught course for "perceptions of learning" and "perceptions of atmosphere" ( DISCUSSION: This study demonstrated that students value interactive learning environments and that there is benefit in introducing these components to a traditionally taught medical curriculum, when it may not be feasible to bring innovation to the entire medical curriculum due to resource constraints. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01359-y.

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DREEM questionnaireEducational environmentMedical educationStudent perceptions

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PMCPMC8446114

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