Evaluation of hospital-learning environment for pediatric residency in eastern region of Saudi Arabia.
- Author:
Waleed H BUALI
1
;
Abdul Sattar KHAN
;
Mohammad Hussain AL-QAHTANI
;
Shaikha ALDOSSARY
Author Information
- Publication Type:Multicenter Study ; Original Article
- Keywords: Teaching hospitals; Internship and Residency; Learning; Pediatrics; Saudi Arabia; Social Support
- MeSH: Surveys and Questionnaires; Discrimination (Psychology); Female; Hospitals, Teaching; Humans; Internship and Residency*; Learning; Male; Pediatrics; Racism; Saudi Arabia*
- From:Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions 2015;12(1):14-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: PURPOSE: No study had been conducted to assess the hospitals' environment for learning purposes in multicenter sites in Saudi Arabia. It aims to evaluate the environment of hospitals for learning purposes of pediatric residents. METHODS: We applied Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM) to measure the learning environment at six teaching hospitals in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia from September to December 2013. RESULTS: The number of respondents was 104 (86.7%) out of 120 residents and 37 females and 67 male residents have responded. The residents' response scored 100 out of 160 maximum score in rating of PHEEM that showed overall learning environment is favorable for training. There were some items in the social support domain suggesting improvements. There was no significant difference between male and female residents. There was a difference among the participant teaching hospitals (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The result pointed an overall positive rating. Individual item scores suggested that their social life during residency could be uninspiring. They have the low satisfactory level and they feel racism, and sexual discrimination. Therefore, there is still a room for improvement.
