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Background: Emotional intelligence is a social skill which includes understanding one__AWT_QUOTE__s own feelings for suitable decision-making, application of feelings in communication and the ability to lead other people. This descriptive study has been conducted with the aim of investigating and determining emotional intelligence among students of medical sciences universities in western Iran. It also tried to compare this feature among male and female students. Methods: All 303 participants of the study have been students of medical sciences universities in west of Iran, who were selected using stratified random sampling. Bar-On emotional intelligence test was used as an instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics including mean, mode, standard deviation, frequency was used to analyze the data. Non-parametric statistical test of Mann–Whitney U has been used to examine the hypotheses. Findings: The results of this study show that 83.2 percent of respondents have high levels of sympathy and empathy. Most of the respondents (63.5) had a medium flexibility in dealing with changes and situations. Also, there was a significant difference between male and female students regarding some components of emotional intelligence including problem solving, level of independence, emotional self consciousness, optimism, and sympathy. Conclusion: The results of the present study indicate that among students, especially females, emotional intelligence regarding indexes and subtests of impulse control, flexibility, realism, stress tolerance and self-expression lies in a medium level. Training students in these aspects of emotional intelligence, as a part of life skill learning program, is suggested.

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