Postgraduate students’ perception of the educational environment of a wet lab training in Neurological Surgery Division, UCH, Ibadan

The perception of students determine their attitude, academic progress and practice as professionals, to a large extent. Therefore, understanding the opinions of students/trainees is of utmost importance when evaluating the environment of medical education [1]. The quality of an educational program, as well as, the evaluation of their training, can be improved and modi ied through the feedback of students [2]. Investigations on students’ views of their learning environments have focused mostly on other educational disciplines like Architecture, Education and Communication while attention is just lately shifting to students of the clinical health sciences. Scholars describe the educational or learning environment to mean all the happenings within the classroom; the faculty or department, as well as, the institution as a whole [2,3]. In this context, all activities and interactions, relating to academic pursuits, taking place within an institution constitute the educational or learning environment. In the clinical sciences, researchers adopt different approaches to assess the medical educational environment. The most widely used standardized instrument in such settings is the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire by the Delphi panel. This has been applied among undergraduate medical students across locations like Nigeria; Nepal and Saudi Arabia [4-6], especially amongst Physiotherapy clinical students [7]. The wet lab is an emerging, important aspect of Research Article