TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring the educational environment in health professions studies
T2 - a systematic review.
AU - Soemantri, Diantha
AU - Herrera, Cristian
AU - Riquelme, Arnoldo
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Sue Roff and Sean McAleer for their comments and support in completing the project and finalizing the manuscript. This work is partially supported by grants of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), FONDECYT no. 11004336 to A.R.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - One of the determinants of the medical student's behaviour is the medical school learning environment. The aim of this research was to identify the instruments used to measure the educational environment in health professions education and to assess their validity and reliability. We performed an electronic search in the medical literature analysis and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) and Timelit (Topics in medical education) databases through to October 2008. The non-electronic search (hand searching) was conducted through reviewing the references of the retrieved studies and identifying the relevant ones. Two independent authors read, rated and selected studies for the review according to the pre-specified criteria. The inter-rater agreement was measured with Kappa coefficient. Seventy-nine studies were included with the Kappa coefficient of 0.79, which demonstrated a reliable process, and 31 instruments were extracted. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure, Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure, Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision and Dental Student Learning Environment Survey are likely to be the most suitable instruments for undergraduate medicine, postgraduate medicine, nursing and dental education, respectively. As a valid and reliable instrument is available for each educational setting, a study to assess the educational environment should become a part of an institution's good educational practice. Further studies employing a wider range of databases with more elaborated search strategies will increase the comprehensiveness of the systematic review.
AB - One of the determinants of the medical student's behaviour is the medical school learning environment. The aim of this research was to identify the instruments used to measure the educational environment in health professions education and to assess their validity and reliability. We performed an electronic search in the medical literature analysis and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) and Timelit (Topics in medical education) databases through to October 2008. The non-electronic search (hand searching) was conducted through reviewing the references of the retrieved studies and identifying the relevant ones. Two independent authors read, rated and selected studies for the review according to the pre-specified criteria. The inter-rater agreement was measured with Kappa coefficient. Seventy-nine studies were included with the Kappa coefficient of 0.79, which demonstrated a reliable process, and 31 instruments were extracted. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure, Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure, Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision and Dental Student Learning Environment Survey are likely to be the most suitable instruments for undergraduate medicine, postgraduate medicine, nursing and dental education, respectively. As a valid and reliable instrument is available for each educational setting, a study to assess the educational environment should become a part of an institution's good educational practice. Further studies employing a wider range of databases with more elaborated search strategies will increase the comprehensiveness of the systematic review.
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U2 - 10.3109/01421591003686229
DO - 10.3109/01421591003686229
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21090946
AN - SCOPUS:78649374570
SN - 0142-159X
VL - 32
SP - 947
EP - 952
JO - Medical Teacher
JF - Medical Teacher
IS - 12
ER -