Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the actual severity level of current psychological symptoms in medical students depending on gender, year of study, quality of family relationships and traumatic experiences. Subjects and methods: Participants were 1st, 3rd and 6th year medical students at the Medical Faculty of the University of Split. A total number of 166 students participated in particular research. The Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty in Split approved an anonymous questionnaire which formed the basis of this research that consisted of two parts. The first part covered questions related to socio-demographic characteristics: age, gender, year of study, quality of family relationships, previously asked psychological help and traumatic experiences. The second part of the questionnaire was a validated „BSI” questionnaire that allowed a quantitative assessment of mental disorders. Results: The results of this study showed that degree of expression of current psychological symptoms of somatization, sensitivity in interpersonal relationships, anxiety and phobia, is significantly higher in female students compared to their male counterparts. Students in the 3rd year of study had a significantly higher degree of current expression of symptoms of somatization, sensitivity in interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, phobia, paranoid ideas and psychoticism compared to 6th year students. It was found that degree of expression of depression and psychoticism is higher in 1st year students compared to 6th year students. Medical students with healthy family relationships had less severe psychological symptoms. Students with a traumatic experience had a significantly higher expression of all psychological symptoms except hostility. Conclusion: Female students had higher levels of current psychological symptoms of somatization, anxiety, sensitivity in interpersonal relationships and phobias. Students of the 3rd year expressed majority of current mental symptoms compared to 6th year students. Only symptoms of depression and psychoticism were more expressed in the 1st year students. In students with healthy family relationships had lower expression of all psychological symptoms. Meanwhile, students who were exposed to some sort of traumatic experience, higher degrees of expression of all psychological symptoms were found, except for hostility.