Introduction:

The Curriculum 2010 of the Medical Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico poses a continuous assessment process involving multiple factors such as teachers, companions or peers, as well as expectations that students have of their learning process. The educational environment is very important for achieving the educational objectives of this plan and therefore affects academic success and motivation of students.

Subjects and methods:

The questionnaire Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) assesses: perception of learning, perception of teachers, academic self-perception, perception of the environment and social self-perception. It was applied to an initial cohort of 755 students, making the annual monitoring during the first four years of the career.

Results:

A total of 2288 questionnaires were applied in the four years of medical school. The results demonstrate first, third and fourth years are interpreted as ‘educational environment with more positives than negatives’ and the second year with a total score of 74.2 as an ‘educational environment with many problems’.

Conclusions:

According to the qualitative and quantitative results in the application of the DREEM survey, highlights the areas of opportunity and possibly some strength that comprise the Curriculum 2010, these findings lead to research to follow up this Curriculum to 6 years of implementation and execution.

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