Knowledge and attitude of nursing students towards objective structure clinical evaluation

Abstract

Ronald Harden introduced OSCE (Objective structured clinical examination) for the first time in medical education in 1975 at the Dundee University, Scot J and to assess the skills and clinical performance of students. Now, it is used in other branches of  health sciences including nursing, dentistry and pharmacy OSCE has become a popular tool for assessing competence  in clinical nursing It has been used in medical schools for both formative and summative assessment to validate clinical skills by using standardized patients”.In the last two decades, rapid and extensive changes happened in student assessment methods of medical education. Many of the assessment methods have been developed and mainly concentrated on clinical procedural ability, conveying skills and Professionalism The OSCE is defined as "an approach to the assessment of clinical competence in which the components of competence are assessed well planned or structured way with attention being paid to objectivity”. The OSCE is becoming or prevalent within healthcare education programmes because it is regarded as a useful method for meaning skills and underpinning knowledge required for practice During the OSCE examination, students rotate around a circuit of stations on a timed basis.