Students' perspectives on the educational environment, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Trinidad

The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was administered to 70 final-year medical students and 36 first-year medical interns (pre-registration house officers). The overall total mean DREEM scores for the five subscales--namely, students' perceptions of the atmosphere, students' perceptions of learning, students' social self-perceptions, students' perceptions of teachers and students' academic self-perceptions--was 109.9 and the total mean scores for the subgroups--male students, male interns, female students and female interns--were 103.39, 111.82, 111.33 and 113.15, respectively. The lowest scores were assigned to students' social self-perceptions and students' perceptions of the atmosphere. All of the participants except the male interns recorded the highest scores for the subscale academic self-perceptions