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Objective: To evaluate the perception of the educational environment in Latin American medical students. Material and Methods: Observational, descriptive crosssectional study, with nonprobability sampling of consecutive cases. The DREEM questionnaire (Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure) was used to collect the data, the quality control was analyzed using Stata v.14.0. Data is expressed in frequency tables and descriptive statistics. Results: 59.30% (389) belonged to females; 78.05% (512) belonging to the age range comprised between 18 and 22 years. The 76.67% (503) of the students indicated that the educational environment is positive rather than negative. However, 1.83% (12) has sense of total failure, also 32.62% (214) of students' state that is not a friendly environment. Conclusion: The strengths were evidenced on the perception of teaching-learning process and the perception of their teachers, while the main weakness regards the social domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]