aDepartment of Pharmacology, MSDS Medical College, Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
bDepartment of Community Medicine, SHKM Govt. Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
cDepartment of Microbiology, MSDS Medical College, Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
dDepartment of Pharmacology, Co-ordinator MEU College, SHKM GMC, Mewat, Haryana, India
eDental Surgeon, Jammu & Kashmir Health Services, Jammu & Kashmir, India
fDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India
gDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
1Corresponding author
Online published on 20 April, 2016.
The present study was planned with the aim of identifying scope of improvement if any, in educational environment with special focus on the subject of pharmacology in an evolving medical school from western Uttar Pradesh. The total DREEM score of the student's was 107.88/200. The mean domain scores were 27.66/48, 24.86/44, 18.45/32, 24.73/48, 12.18/28 in the domains of Student's Perceptions of Learning (SPL), Student's Perceptions of Teachers (SPT), Student's Academic Self-Perceptions (SASP), Student's Perceptions of Atmosphere (SPA) and Student's Social Self Perceptions (SSSP) respectively. Students opined that learning was teacher centered (1.76). They also opined that more importance was given on factual information (1.43). Authoritarian behavior of teachers towards students in pharmacology classes (1.95) is noteworthy.
Educational environment, Pharmacology, Teaching, Students, Learning
