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Introduction: Medical students experience considerable amount of stress related to various domains such as academic related, social related, interpersonal related etc. It is important to look for the levels of stressors among medical students and intervene at appropriate time in order to improve the quality of medical professionals. Material and methods: A cross sectional study was conducted amongst undergraduate medical students by providing a structured Medical Student Stressor Questionnaire (MSSQ 20) to assess the stressors. Stresses related to academic related, social related, interpersonal related data were statistically analyzed. Results: This study included 136 students (73% females and 27% males). The mean age and BMI of the participants were 21.24 ±1.74 years and 21.7 ± 3.3 kg/m 2 respectively. This study showed that medical students experience moderate levels of stress in all the domains of stress and a significant increase is noted in academic related stress (ARS) than other domains (p value <0.0001) followed by group activities related stress and social related stress. Conclusion: ARS is acting as a major stress factor among all the stress domains in medical students of this study population. Appropriate measures should be taken to promote the physical and mental well-being of medical students and thereby ensuring academic excellence and good quality medical professionals.

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