Table 1.

Items in learning environment scale

		N of items
Hospital placement learning environment	There was leadership of this placement	11 (8)
	There was an appropriate reception to this placement
	I was supported by the people I met on this placement
	I was inspired by my teachers
	I was instructed in how to perform clinical skills on real patients
	I was observed performing clinical tasks on real patients
	I received feedback on how I performed clinical tasks on real patients
	I received appropriate clinical teaching
	This placement provided an appropriate learning environment (facilities)
	This placement was appropriately organised
	This placement gave me access to appropriate real patients
Community placement learning environment	Identical items to hospital placement learning environment except that the accompanying rubric referenced the items to the community rather than hospital placement.	11 (8)

Text marked in bold were included in the validation exercise, but later eliminated because they did not load unambiguously on one or other construct identified by factor analysis. Hence, the total number of items fell from 11 to 8 for both hospital and community placement learning environments