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Background: Poor meal taking behaviour is a critical public health issue which may lead to poor health and economic burden among people. Food preference starts early and continue to adulthood. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 304 medical students at a university in Malaysia, with the aim to determine their meal taking behaviour and the factors influencing these behaviours. Descriptive and analytic statistics were used to analyse the data collected using pre-tested and validated questionnaire. Chi square test was used to determine the association and significant level is set at p<0.05. Result: The response rate of was 83.2%. Most of respondents are 21 year old (29.6%), female (74.7%), Malay (60.1%), Muslim (60.9%) and from high socio-economic status family (60.1%). The percentage of respondents who have good and poor meal taking behaviour are almost similar, at 49.4% and 50.6%, respectively. Age, race and religion and source of food taken for breakfast were found to have statistically significant association with good meal taking behaviour. Conclusion: Students should be encouraged to have their meals in a proper time, with good quality and quantity of foods while taking consideration of their food preference. Health education can play a part in increasing the proportion of students with good meal taking behaviour.

MEAL TAKING BEHAVIOUR AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN MALAYSIA