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A 5-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department because her left thigh is swollen and she cries when it is moved. Her father says she rolled off a cou…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are the intern attached to a regional public health unit. Its annual child health profile for a town of 4,000 people reports: two-dose measles-mumps-rubella…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
You are the intern in a regional hospital's paediatric outpatient clinic. A 3-year-old Aboriginal boy has bilateral middle ear effusions and a 35 dB conductive…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A coastal local government area has recorded four drownings of children under five years of age in five years, every one of them in a backyard swimming pool at…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a general practice registrar in a regional town of 6,000 people. Over six weeks the public health unit has confirmed seven cases of measles, four of the…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A local health district in western Sydney surveys its primary schools and finds that one in three children aged 5 to 12 years is above the healthy weight range,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. Over three weeks you admit four toddlers from the same remote community with extensive impetigo, and a fifth chil…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a general practice registrar in a Western Australian coastal town of 6000 people. Over the past year the proportion of five-year-olds recorded as fully…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are a junior doctor at a regional Western Australian hospital. Hospital data show that Aboriginal children in the district are admitted with skin infections…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A Perth tertiary hospital's ear, nose and throat department plans a programme to reduce chronic suppurative otitis media in a remote Aboriginal community 1500 k…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are a general practice registrar in Perth. A 3-year-old boy attends with his mother for a routine pre-kindergarten review recorded in his personal health re…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old Aboriginal boy attends a Perth general practice with his mother for a certificate to return to school after chickenpox. He is well, fully immunised…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy attends a Perth outpatient clinic. She needs continuing physiotherapy and speech pathology to preserve fu…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old Aboriginal boy from a remote Kimberley community has bilateral chronic suppurative otitis media with a 35 dB conductive hearing loss and delayed sp…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. A 6-year-old girl admitted with pneumonia tells you that a family friend does rude things to her when he babysits…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a resident in a Perth children's hospital and have had concerns about five children this week. Each concern is soundly based, you believe each on reason…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 9-year-old girl is brought to a Perth emergency department by her mother at 9 pm. At triage she told the nurse that her mother's partner puts his hands inside…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl attends a general practice with her aunt for a rash. While her aunt is out of the room collecting a prescription, the girl says, without any p…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
You are the intern caring for a 3-year-old boy admitted with bronchiolitis at a Perth hospital. On the second night his mother tells you that his father drinks…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl attends a rural general practice for the fourth time in six months, twice with minor bruises and twice with abdominal pain. Dry at night for a…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist