Background: Clinical education is a facilitator of learning in the clinical environment that can make measurable changes in students to perform clinical care. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical educational environment at nursing and midwifery students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch using undergraduate clinical educational environment measure (UCEEM).

Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out at nursing and midwifery school in 2014. All 215 internship nursing and midwifery students were selected and the UCEEM was used for data collection. We translated the instrument into Persian and ensured its content and construct validity by back translation and exploratory factor analysis. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 17 by the independent samples t test, Pearson correlation coefficient and one-way ANOVA. P-value<0.05 was considered significant.

Results: One hundred and ninety seven questionnaires were analyzed. Mean UCEEM overall score was 85.24 (range: 5-25). 48.15 had positive attitude. The factor analysis yielded four factors. The reliability of questionnaire (Cranach’s &alpha;) was 0.93. Mean score of nursing students was higher than midwifery students (p<0.006). Age, marriage status, hospital stays, and type of hospitals had not significant correlation with student perception (p<0.532).

Conclusion: The finding of this study showed that students’ perceptions for educational environment are in average level and there is an opportunity for improvement in all domains of clinical educational environment.

Keywords: Environment, Undergraduate, Evaluation, Perception.