Introduction:

Clinical supervision plays a significant role in nursing and medical practice. We aimed to explore the experiences of medicine and nursing students from the clinical educational supervision.

Material and methods:

In this cross-sectional study, 144 students of colleges of nursing (n = 88) and medicine (n = 56) of the Univer-sity of Duhok, who were receiving clinical training for clinical-based subjects at colleges of nursing and medicine at University of Duhok in Kurdistan Region were included in a convenient way.

Results:

: The study found that 57.64% were satisfied with the clinical supervision and mostly had positive perceptions. The total clinical supervision score, trust/rapport, supervisor advice, support, improve care/skills, improvement/value of clinical supervision, fund-ing time, personal issues, and reflection were significantly higher among medicine students. The medicine students were more likely to be satisfied with clinical training characteristics and had longer clinical training compared to the nursing students: 19-24 months (44.64%) vs. 1-6 months (70.45%; p < 0.0001), respectively. The entire clinical training (100%) among medicine students was weekly compared to weekly (86.36%), 2-weekly (3.41%), monthly (6.82%), and over 3 months (3.41%) among nursing students (p = 0.0397).

Conclusions:

The medicine students were more likely to be satisfied with clinical supervision compared to the nursing students. This satisfaction was associated with longer and weekly duration of training. The weaknesses of clinical supervision can guide supervisors to improve clinical education. We suggest that the entire fourth year be devoted to clinical training at the nursing college. In addition, one-to-one clinical training techniques be applied to both nursing and medicine colleges. We suggest the issues of clinical supervision be examined in more detail through some qualitative studies. The quantitative studies may not uncover the real problems of clinical supervision of medical students.