Background: Emotional Intelligence refers to an individual`s capability of understanding and responding appropriately to emotions and application of this understanding to guide their thoughts and actions. The study aimed to assess the level of emotional intelligence and its determinants among medical undergraduates, interns and postgraduate students at a medical institute in Nagpur. Methods: A quantitative, questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted among 384 medical students from a medical college at Nagpur using Quick Emotional Intelligence Self Assessment Test to assess the level of EI and study its association with selected socio-demographic factors. Coded Data was entered in Microsoft excel. Descriptive statistics like percentage, proportion SD were used. Inferential statistics were applied using licensed version of SPSS 27, and p-value less than 0.05 was expressed as statistically significant. Results: Among the total 384 study participants, mean age was 24.63 years with a standard deviation of 3.27 years. More than three fourths were females. Above average EI scores were present in 284 (64.5%) of the participants. Higher mean EI scores were observed among the residents (114.54 ± 21.0) as compared to interns (104.87 ± 22.6) and undergraduate students (100.11 ± 22.58) which was statistically significant (f=7.081; p=0.00107). Parental education was significantly associated with higher EI scores whereas, there was no association between age, gender and place of residence with the EI scores. Conclusions: level of emotional intelligence among most of the medical students was above average. Higher parental education and advanced academic stage has better EI scores among the medical students. Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Medical students, Emotions, Determinants, Doctor patient relationship
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