Background and Aim: A physician has several interviews during his career due to his profession and turns the medical interview into the most common procedure applied in clinical medicine. For this reason, communication and empathy are important clinical skills which are desired during the interviews with patients and need to be improved. When considered from the physician candidates’ perspective, communication and empathy are the basic clinical skills that can be taught and learned. The aim of this study is to evaluate physician candidates’ pre-clinical communication and empathy skills and to examine them in terms of demographic variables. It is thought that findings obtained in this sense may be in the nature of needs analysis in terms of medical education curriculum. Methods: Population of this descriptive research consisted of Term 1-2 and 3 students of Faculty of Medicine of a foundation university located in Ankara in academic year 2017-2018, and it was completed with 90 students agreeing to participate. For data collection, the Personal Information Form, the Communication Skills Inventory developed by Ersanlı and Balcı and the Empathy Skill Scale B-Form developed by Dökmen were used. Results: 61.1% of the students are female, 53.3% graduated from Anatolian High Schools, 93.3% have mostly spent their lives in the city, 70% live with their families at home and 86.7% have core families. While students’ total communication skill score was slightly above the medium-level, total empathy skill score remained below the medium-level. It was also discovered that women’s mean communication and empathy skill score was higher than that of men. Conclusions: Effective communication of the physicians with their patients will help them establish earlier and more accurate diagnoses and increase the patients’ compliance with the treatment process and increase their satisfaction by decreasing their anxiety. At this point, the curriculum of medical education should have a content and quality which will enable the aforementioned communication to be noticed in candidate physicians at an early stage.