Mental health · History

Weight gain

Medium

10 min station · 2 min reading · Recommended for Curtin Year 3 students

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2 min reading · 10 min station · reminders at 2 min

Instructions

You are a medical student on placement in general practice. Your next patient is Joel Manalo, 26, a warehouse worker, presenting with weight gain over the past two years and asking for weight-loss tablets.

  1. Take a focused history

  2. Outline to the examiner:

    • Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
    • Next steps in management
  • You do not need to examine the patient
  • You do not need to summarise your history to the examiner

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