Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
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Background and Objective: The learning environment includes all physical, psychological, emotional conditions and facilities, cultural and social factors that affect the growth and development of the learner in an educational institution.This study was conducted to investigate the perception of general medical students about the learning environment in Shahroud University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted using a cross-sectional method and simple random sampling method on 252 medical students in clinical and non-clinical levels at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, A demographic information checklist and DREEM questionnaire were used to collect data, After collection, the data were entered into SPSS18 software and analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage) and analytical statistics (t-test, Spearman correlation coefficient, and Pearson correlation coefficient). Findings: In this study, the results showed that there was a significant relationship between all demographic characteristics and the educational environment score and the highest average scores of the educational environment in the subgroups were respectively in the learning environment 6.14±42.98, educational atmosphere 5.89±42.90, teaching of professors 4.44±4.31.98, own academic preparation 3.61 ±2 8.22 and social status 3.90±22.71 and 66.9% of students had a completely favorable view of their educational environment, and the overall average score of perception of the learning environment was 163.11±20.41. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that students have a very favorable understanding of their educational environment, which requires planning to maintain these conditions.
Paryab S, Mehryar H, Vahedi H, Dashtipor M, Rahmani iniolia Z, Garkaz O. Examining the Perception of General Medical Students About the Learning Environment in Shahroud University of Medical Sciences. mededj 2025; 14 URL: http://mededj.ir/article-1-545-en.html