Title:
Evaluating Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Among Nursing Students at Faculty of Nursing. Omdurman Islamic 2023.

Authors:
Fatima Elamin Hamid Mohamed Manal Bilal Mohammed Amira Bakhit Elbalal Ataelkarim Batoul Karama Abdalla Karama Gamila Mohamed Hamid Wathba Garelnabi Abdelrahim Safi Fathia Komi KokoAli. amna Mohammed saeed Elasha Zahra Mohamed Altahir Ahmed Tayseerhussein Nouralden Abdalgader Mohammed, Sudan

Abstract:

Background: - The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a comprehensive, structured and consistent approach for assessing aspects of the student's clinical competence with maintenance of high objectivity.  Aim of the study: to assess student evaluation of an OSCE nursing clinical course at Faculty of Nursing science, Omdurman Islamic university.

Materials and methods: - Study Design institute based cross sectional survey

Study setting:  The study was conducted in Faculty of Nursing science Omdurman Islamic university Sample:  A (300) nursing students who completed their clinical nursing OSCE examination. 

Tool of data collection: a self-administered questionnaire sheet was used including the following parts: - Part 1: socio-demographic characteristic of the students.  Part (2) Consist of evaluation the OSCE features, it comprises of 13 items to know if OSCE exam was fair clearness, Wide knowledge area covered, exams well administered and numbers of stations, this divided to response of agree, neutral and disagree Section three: the assessment of the quality of OSCE performance, it covers 8 items related to the students' recognition of fully aware of nature of exam, time at each station, if Instructions were clear and unambiguous. This covered by response in to great extent, neutral and to some extend

Section four: assessing the OSCE marks and objectivity, it consists of 4 items to measure students' perception of validity and reliability of OSCE if scores of it   provide true measure of essential clinical skills, standardized

Section five: assessment nursing students to rating formats of osce exam, consists of four questions subdivided to types of exam as general by MCQ. Essay. OSCE .Clerkship ratings their response differ for each subtitle. For question related to easiest, the response divided into difficult,  undecided, easy, and for question whether the formats is fairest these their response divided into unfair, Undecided, Fair.

Results: - OSCE was considered as a fair examination method by 178(59.3%) of students. One thirds 110(36.7%) of the studied students reported that, OSCE is less stressful than other exams, while half of them had neutral response. 

Conclusion: the findings highlight that OSCE is a meaningful and fair form of assessment tool for clinical skills in nursing and that it has had a positive effect on nursing curriculum. 

Recommendation:  the present study recommended that, OSCE should be applied in all nursing clinical examination and must be used as an integral part of the clinical evaluation system/students' assessment at the under graduate.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.51505/ijmshr.2025.9614