title: [An assessment of the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) in Chilean university students].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The entry to a University requires an adaptation process that not all students solve with the same kind of success. Even though students social adaptation and emotional skills are essential, the educational environmental that they perceive has a significant influence in their academic life.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the changes in the perception about academic environment that medical students experience during the first three years of undergraduate career.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) scale was applied to 525 first to third year medical students and an exploratory factorial analysis was made.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four factors were identified: Academic Perception: academic quality that students attribute to the process in which they take part, as well as to the assessment that they do of their learning outcomes (coefficient ± = 0.85); Academic Experience: refers to positive emotions that students experience during the career such as confidence, pleasure and energy (coefficient ± = 0.76); Atmosphere Perception, comfort and calm that students experiment during their academic activities (coefficient ± = 0.79); Teachers Perception: the perception that students have of teachers about their interest and disposition towards students (coefficient ± = 0.50).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The assessment of academic environment quality is inversely associated with the lapse that the students have spent in their undergraduate careers.
authors.forename: Javiera
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ortega B
authors.forename: Cristhian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez V
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortiz M
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fasce H
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McColl C
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres A
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Márquez U
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parra P
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002677:Chile; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000592:standards*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D011594:Psychometrics; D012931:Social Environment; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult