Table 1 Distribution of content strategies across the one-week personal development program and its related DREEM subscale

Session one

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

• Student’s social self-perceptions

Session two

Learning Skills and introduction to courses

• Students’ perception of learning

• Students’ academic self-perception

Session three

Practicing and applying ethics/Professional behavior

• Students’ perception of teachers

Session four

Personality development

• students’ perceptions of atmosphere

Session five

Humanistic culture and educational environment

• students’ perceptions of atmosphere