The learning environment at a public university in northern chile: how is dental education perceived by students?

Comparisons Between Preclinical and Clinical Dental Students’ Perceptions of the Educational Climate at the College of Dentistry, Jazan University

“…19,21,23-25,28,29, The mean DREEM values for preclinical and clinical phases were 126.21±16.02 and 124.1±14.0 (Table 3), which are lesser values than those recorded among similar phases in studies conducted by Al-Saleh et al, 9 in King Saud University (KSU) Riyadh. It was, however, near to the scores obtained among preclinical dental students by Kossioni et al, 22 in Greece, Chandran and Ranjan 29 in India, Stormon et al, 30 in Australia, and by Tisi Lanchares et al, 34 in Chile. Higher DREEM scores were registered in preclinical and clinical dental students in Spain by Tomas et al, 21 130.6 and 140.0, and New Zealand 143±15.4 and 134±16.5.…”

“…All students were recruited in this study, except first and second year students and the response rate was 91%, which was significantly higher than some of the earlier studies conducted in SA, KSU-Riyadh which recorded response rates of 60.73% and 52%, 9,11 Dammam University reported 72% and 81.7%, 13,15 but equal or slightly lower than studies conducted at Taibah University Al Madinah, and Al Munawara with 91%, 97-100% and 97%. 12,14,16 A high response rate was also recorded in dental schools worldwide (Turkey 96.69%; 18 Spain 80%; 21 Nepal 100%; 24 Pakistan 70%; 25 India 96%, 26 87% 28 and 83.7%, 29 Nigeria 95%; 28 Australia 90%, 33 Chile 91.1%, 34 and New Zealand 82-94%). 35 Figure 1 and Table 5 show that there were no significant differences between the two phases of the dentistry curriculum, ie, the preclinical phase (years 3 and 4) and the clinical phases (years 5 and 6).…”

“…It carried out studies of the EC in dental colleges in Saudi Arabia, 9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Europe, [18][19][20][21][22][23] Asia, [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Africa, 32 North America, and the Caribbean. [33][34][35] Previous dental local and worldwide studies are presented in (Table 1).…”

DREEM‐ing of dentistry: Students’ perception of the academic learning environment in Australia

“…Percentage scores also enable comparison across the individual domains . Percentage scores were compared with data from published international studies using the DREEM with dental students . Internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha) ranged from 0.92 to 0.93 on all domains.…”

“…International studies with dentistry students used the DREEM to guide recommendations and modification on the curriculum and assessment, and it was found to increase teacher feedback interventions for perceived stress and mentoring programmes . Specifically, the DREEM has been used in British, Chilean, German, Greek, Indian, Malaysian, New Zealand, Nigerian, Spanish and Saudi Arabian dental students . To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no studies in Australia have used the DREEM to investigate the learning environment in dentistry.…”