 this study aimed to assess students perceptions of their educational environment in the faculty of medicine and pharmacy of rabat , morocco , using the dundee ready educational environment measure ( dreem ) . 
 a cross - sectional survey was conducted in the faculty of medicine and pharmacy of rabat , morocco , in which medical students perceptions of their educational environment were assessed using the dreem criteria during the 2013 - 2014 academic years . 
 the dreem inventory encompasses 50 items divided into five subdomains : perceptions of learning , perceptions of teaching , academic self - perceptions , perceptions of atmosphere , and social self - perceptions . 
 the dreem has a maximum score of 200 , which would correspond to a perfect educational environment . 
 the mean scores ( standard deviation ) of students responses were compared according to their year of study and gender . 
 the responses of 189 postgraduate medical students were included . 
 the mean total dreem score was 90.8 ( 45.4% ) . 
 the mean total scores for five subdomains were 21.2/48 ( 44.2% ) , 21.8/44 ( 49.6% ) , 13.1/32 ( 40.9% ) , 19.0/48 ( 39.6% ) , and 15.6/28 ( 55.7% ) respectively . 
 female students reported higher perceptions of teaching scores than males ( p=0.002 ) , and students in their fifth year of study reported significantly higher social self - perceptions scores than those in their fourth year ( p=0.03 ) . in this study of the oldest faculty of medicine in morocco 
 , students perceived the educational environment as having many problems . 
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