Common
The decision you make weekly on the ward. 494 questions.
A 4-year-old boy is brought to a general practice for the third time this year, now with six weeks of night waking and new bedwetting after a year of being dry.…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 10-year-old boy is seen in a paediatric outpatient clinic. Over six months he has become irritable, has stopped playing soccer, which he loved, and takes over…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
An 18-month-old boy is brought by his parents, who are alarmed that he bangs his head rhythmically against the cot rails for ten to fifteen minutes as he settle…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A term 9-month-old boy is brought to the child health nurse. Over the past six weeks he has begun to cry when his grandmother, whom he sees weekly, picks him up…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-month-old boy attends for a developmental check. He runs, walks up stairs holding the rail and kicks a ball. He builds a tower of six blocks, turns the pag…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-year-old boy is seen for a routine check. His mother says he has always been "solidly built", like his father. He is 1.18 m tall and weighs 30 kg, giving a…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old boy attends for a sports participation certificate. He mentions that his parents give him a glass of wine with Sunday dinner so that he learns to…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old boy attends the general practice with his father because of headaches on most school days for three months. His neurological examination, includin…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A midwife makes a home visit to a 2-week-old girl. She was born at term, is exclusively breastfed and has regained her birth weight. Her mother is exhausted and…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A woman who is 19 weeks pregnant with her second child asks what she can do to protect the new baby from whooping cough. Her 2-year-old daughter is fully immuni…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are the intern on the postnatal ward. The newborn screening laboratory telephones about a 5-day-old girl: the immunoreactive trypsinogen was raised on the b…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to the general practice because he uses only about twenty single words and no two-word phrases. He passed his newborn hearing screen…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A medical student writes a medication order on the chart of a 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg who has been admitted with an asthma exacerbation. The order reads:…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends the general practice with her mother because of four months of daily headaches. Her mother answers every question, describes the head…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
You are the intern on the paediatric ward. A 2-year-old girl admitted with gastroenteritis needs a nasogastric tube for rehydration. Her parents arrived in Aust…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A term newborn girl is examined on the postnatal ward. She lay in a breech position from 34 weeks and was delivered by caesarean section. With the baby relaxed…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old boy is referred to the paediatric clinic after a school nursing screen recorded a blood pressure of 132/84 mmHg, above the 95th centile for his ag…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A girl born at 28 weeks gestation is brought to the child health nurse for a routine review. She is now 5 months old by the calendar and has been home from the…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A psychiatry registrar in Perth tells you, a fellow registrar, that since his father died four months ago he has had low mood, waking at 4 am and poor concentra…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
An 81-year-old woman attends a Perth general practice for a diabetes review, accompanied by her son, who moved in with her this year and has driven her today. T…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common