While OSCE development, testing, and innovation are common in the literature, studies from the USA, Australia, and the UK predominate.
Little is known about OSCE use in European countries such as Italy, where other than Palese et al.'s (2012) analysis of its cost, there is little reporting about OSCE.
This has important implications for nurse education and practice as the extent to which OSCE approaches are culturally sensitive or reliable across cultures is not clear.
This paper is the first reporting an Italian OSCE initiative, which evaluated the equity and objectivity of the OSCE method of assessing clinical learning in one university.