Medical Students’ Perception of the Educational Environment at College of Medicine: A Prospective Study with a Review of Literature

Table 1

Comparison of DREEM mean total scores of different studies in various countries.

Country	Year of report	Number of participants	Overall DREEM score	Reference
Within Kingdom
Saudi Arabia	2004	450	102	[2]
Saudi Arabia	2008	500	89.9	[4]
Saudi Arabia	2012	358	108.28	[39]
Saudi Arabia	2012	100	112.95	[40]
Saudi Arabia	2012	100	143.9	[38]
Saudi Arabia	2013	573	106	[36]
Saudi Arabia	2013	524	120.70	[37]
Saudi Arabia	2013	76	96.57	[41]
Saudi Arabia	2013	454	112	[42]
Saudi Arabia	2014	707	106.55	[43]
Saudi Arabia	2016	279	124.90	[44]
Saudi Arabia	2017	221	101.65	[34]
Saudi Arabia	2017	62	171.57/250	[35]
Saudi Arabia	2017	714	111	[45]
Saudi Arabia	2018	302	108.42	[46]
Saudi Arabia	2019	518	112.38	[1]
Saudi Arabia	2019	242	129.70	[8]
Saudi Arabia	2019	121	126.4	[33]
Saudi Arabia	2020	217	125	[32]
Middle East
United Arab Emirates	2011	190	120	[29]
Kuwait	2009	202	105	[47]
Kuwait	2015	117	108.7	[28]
Oman	2018	737	130.75	[31]
Egypt	2017	677	118.4	[27]
Egypt	2015	511	112.65	[48]
Turkey	2008	553	117.63	[30]
Iran	2010	210	99.6	[5]
Iran	2015	60	95.8	[49]
Iran	2013	202	114.3	[50]
Iran	2015	493	113.5	[20]
Sudan	2018	638	122	[25]
Sudan	2018	347	125.29	[26]
Asia
Pakistan	2019	1185	89.23	[18]
Pakistan	2019	435	110.72	[18]
Pakistan	2018	442	129.92	[9]
Pakistan	2018	884	126	[9]
Pakistan	2017	416	125.77	[21]
Pakistan	2016	180	116.13	[10]
Pakistan	2015	2084	105	[13]
India	2013	348	101.13	[16]
India	2013	73	131.79	[19]
India	2016	322	123	[51]
India	2019	55	119	[52]
Nepal	2019	325	122	[53]
Nepal	2019	122	131.25	[23]
Malaysia	2009	71	133.12	[54]
Malaysia	2015	190	127.9	[21]
Malaysia	2014	438	125.3	[55]
Philippines	2016	341	120.38	[56]
Thailand	2018	2,467	131.1	[22]
Sri Lanka	2005	339	108	[57]
Japan	2010	6725	112	[58]
Korea	2019	239	117.5	[59]
Europe
Germany	2011	1119	109.75	[60]
Sweden	2011	503	145.2	[61]
United Kingdom	2009	216	143.3	[62]
United Kingdom	2007	130	143	[63]
United Kingdom	2007	206	139	[15]
Ireland	2010	199	149.47	[64]
Spain	2015	894	116.2	[65]
Spain	2015	619	104.8	[65]
Others
Canada	2004	407	97	[66]
Chile	2009	328	127.5	[67]
Australia	2009	143	62	[68]
Australia	2019	192	127	[69]