The aim of the study is to evaluate the thoughts and awareness of 6th grade medical students about the importance of communication and the use of body language in communication. The sample of the descriptive-cross-sectional study consisted of 6th grade medical students who attended Bursa Uludağ Uni- versity in the 2017-2018 academic year and agreed to participate in the study (n=135). The data were collected by a questionnaire form prepared by the re- searchers. SPSS 22.0 program was used for statistical analysis. Means and per- centages were used in the evaluation, and a crosstab was used to analyze the relationship between two variables. The significance level was taken as α=0.05. 60% of the participants are women, and 89.5% have a good or above grade point average. The ratio of mother and father who graduated from higher education is 30.4% and 51.9%, respectively. 63.7% of mothers are housewives, 32.6% of fa- thers are retired. The family economic situation of 43% is good or above. The rate of being an only child is low (7.4%). Democratic parenting rate is 69.4%. Participation to statements that communication skills are necessary for a good physician (90.4%), it is as important as the development of medical knowledge (83.7%), the use of body language is effective on the patient (90.4%) and the pa- tient expresses himself to the physician (88.2%) are high. 67.4% find body lan- guage more effective than verbal communication, 14.1% find verbal communication with the patient sufficient. The rates of making eye contact with the patient (88.1%), using mimic-gestures (84.5%), paying attention to their ap- pearance (82.3%), and finding smiling while talking to the patient important (82.9%) are high. 57.7% of them were confident in communication, 11.1% of them received body language training. 34.8% of them stated that included com- munication in their medical education and 26.6% of them included body lan- guage, 79.2% of them stated that the teacher pays attention to how they use body language in the clinic and 64.5% of them stated that teachers use verbal commu- nication more during patient examination. Students care about communication skills and body language training. In order to gain effective communication skills in medical education, an integrated education program should be established in the pre-clinical and clinical period, with goals and evaluation methods