Document Type
Original Report
Disciplines
Medical Education
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Students’ perception of the educational setting is an important source for improving and applying changes to the medical educational environment. This study aimed to determine how medical students perceive the important factors of the learning environment in Internal Medicine at a rural affiliated teaching hospital.
Methods: This was a descriptive study carried out in the Department of Medicine, Sakon Nakhon Hospital, Thailand, from May 2021 to April 2023. Sixth-year medical students completed a validated Internal Medicine Education Environment Measure (IMEEM) questionnaire at the end of four weeks of learning the Clerkship Internal Medicine course.
Results: A total of 48 sixth-year medical students were enrolled, male 27 (56.3%) and female 21 (43.7%). The mean age was 23.56±0.50 years. No significant difference in satisfaction was observed between genders in all aspects, including Course (P=0.674), Teaching (P=0.986), Teacher (P=0.425), Supporting factors (P=0.216), and Social relationship (P=0.074). The average satisfaction scores (4.64–4.83 for males and 4.56-4.81 for females) were at the highest level across all aspects. The highest mean satisfaction score was rated in the Course aspect (4.81-4.83), while the lowest was in the Social relationship aspect (4.56-4.64).
Conclusion: There was no gender difference in the highest level of satisfaction found in the medical educational environment measurement for medical students studying Internal Medicine at this rural affiliated teaching hospital.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32873/unmc.dc.gmerj.5.2.014
Keywords
Medical student, Perception, Internal Medicine, Educational environment
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Waramit, S. Perceptions of Medical Students by Using Internal Medicine Educational Environment Measure (IMEEM) In a Rural Affiliated Teaching Hospital. Graduate Medical Education Research Journal. 2023 Dec 26; 5(2).
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/gmerj/vol5/iss2/14
Perceptual mean scores among medical students
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Demographic characteristics of the participants
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Perceptual mean scores as the Course aspect
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Perceptual mean scores as the Teaching aspect
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Perceptual mean scores as the Teacher aspect
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Perceptual mean scores as the Supporting factor aspect
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Perceptual mean scores as the Social relationship aspect
