Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is one form of objective evaluation method
that is gaining more acceptance and is being adopted by educators of various disciplines. Now, OSCE
becomes a popular tool for assessing competency in clinical nursing and is applied in other branches
of health sciences as dentistry and pharmacy. In OSCE evaluation of the clinical skills is
crucial feedback and it plays a very important motivating role between students and academics to
confirm the standard and appropriateness of a learning process. Objective: Determine the
gerontological nursing students' evaluation and feedback about objective structured clinical
examination. Setting: The study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt.
Subjects: The study included 289 of undergraduate 4th level students enrolled in gerontological
nursing course in the first and second semester during the academic year 2016/2017. Tools: Data was
collected using three tools; Nursing Students Structured Questionnaire Sheet, OSCE Evaluation
Questionnaire and Nursing students' feedback about OSCE questionnaire. Results: Finding of the
present study revealed that most of the gerontological nursing students accepted the objective
structured clinical examination as a tool for evaluating their clinical performance. They reported that
OSCE was fair (77.9%), covered a wide range of clinical skills and knowledge (76.5% and 85.5%
respectively), minimized the chance of failing and highlighted areas of weaknesses by more than two
thirds of the students. Also, there was a significant correlation between the OSCE variables (P=
0.000). Conclusion: Objective structured clinical examination seems to be an acceptable and
beneficial method for evaluation of the gerontological nursing students' clinical skills. Moreover,
objective structured clinical examination implementation in Mansoura University Faculty of Nursing
provides an evidence about accepting this tool of evaluation as viewed by gerontological nursing
students. Recommendations: Preparing standardized and approved OSCE stations for gerontological
nursing course by a high committee from the faculty and the department in the future.