Placements
82 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A first-year doctor on a community mental health placement has been seeing a 24-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder. Over six weeks he has given…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
At 11 pm a 27-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder comes to the emergency department after her flatmate ended their friendship. She has three sup…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 38-year-old man on remand is referred to the prison health service for "anger management". He is charming and articulate. He was expelled from school at 13, h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 63-year-old retired postal worker is referred with four months of "insomnia". He falls asleep within ten minutes but wakes at about 4 am and cannot get back t…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old boy is brought by his parents because two or three nights a week, usually about an hour after falling asleep, he sits bolt upright and screams. He…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl attends your general practice with her mother, who announces at the desk that her daughter needs to go on the pill for her periods. In the ro…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl has lost 7 kg over eight months by cutting out fats and running before school, and is frightened of gaining weight. She is 160 cm tall and we…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
Six days ago a 27-year-old childcare worker was the front-seat passenger in a head-on collision in which the driver was killed. Since then she has had intrusive…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 23-year-old law student describes episodes that begin during arguments with her partner. She suddenly feels as though she has floated up to the ceiling and is…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 38-year-old woman has attended your general practice eleven times in six months. Each visit follows a new bodily sensation - a headache, a skin blemish, a twi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 52-year-old woman attends your practice 20 to 30 times a year with headaches, bloating, dizziness and aching limbs that she says rule her days. She has had tw…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
Three days ago a bus carrying school staff rolled on a country highway and two people died. A 44-year-old teacher who was on the bus is physically uninjured but…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old teacher describes eight months of constant worry about her students, her mortgage and her parents' health that she cannot switch off. She is tense…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old woman is referred with six months of worry, restlessness and broken sleep. She has never been anxious before and can point to no trigger. She has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 29-year-old woman has had six months of abrupt attacks of pounding heartbeat, breathlessness and tingling fingers that peak within minutes. They have come on…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A general practice in Perth is planning how to staff its mental health clinics and asks a medical student to summarise the most recent national data. The studen…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old primary school teacher has felt low, flat and tearful for seven weeks. She still gets to work every day but finds preparing lessons harder than us…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old farmer is brought to a regional emergency department by his brother. Over three months he has withdrawn from the family, stopped eating with them…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old man with a three-month depressive episode tells his general practitioner, quietly and without being asked, that he has been thinking about ending…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common