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321 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 44-year-old woman is seen in the emergency department after telling her general practitioner that she felt like giving up. She has four weeks of low mood, poo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old boy was assessed six weeks ago with four months of social withdrawal and fleeting suspiciousness, and was referred for psychological therapy. He r…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 17-year-old girl is brought to her general practitioner by her father. Over eight months she has stopped seeing friends, dropped from an A to a D average, sle…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a four-week history of persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions. He has used methamphetamine most days for a…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman attends for the fourth time in six months with headache, abdominal pain and difficulty sleeping. Investigations at the previous visits were…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-month-old girl is observed in a research playroom during brief separations from and reunions with her mother. On each reunion she runs towards her mother,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia has had three admissions in eighteen months. He receives paliperidone palmitate by monthly injection at the clinic and ever…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 44-year-old man has adjustment disorder with anxious mood following a workplace investigation. Over eight weeks he has completed six sessions of cognitive beh…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy is brought in by his mother because of his behaviour over the past two months. Since his parents separated he has sworn at teachers, walked ou…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman has been treated for adjustment disorder with depressed mood for ten months, since her only son sustained a spinal cord injury and she becam…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman lives alone in the house she owns. She tells the general practice registrar that her grandson shouts at her when he visits and has twice sho…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 83-year-old man with moderate Alzheimer disease has a large symptomatic inguinal hernia and the surgeon has recommended repair. He lives in a hostel, cannot…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 78-year-old retired farmer is brought in by his wife with four months of tiredness, vague upper abdominal discomfort and aching legs. He has lost 5 kg. He sto…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman is an inpatient on a psychiatric ward being treated for a depressive episode. She is oriented, gives a coherent account of her illness and i…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 79-year-old man was prescribed temazepam 10 mg at night when his wife died four months ago, to help him sleep for a few nights. He has taken it every night si…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 77-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her daughter because she has become confused and unsteady over three days. Five weeks ago her gene…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A general practice in a regional Western Australian town is auditing its patients aged 65 years and over as part of a suicide prevention programme. None of the…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 80-year-old woman with moderate Alzheimer disease in residential care has been agitated and wandering at night for five days, and is drowsy during the day. S…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 73-year-old woman presents with four months of worry, restlessness and difficulty sleeping. She has never been an anxious person and nothing in her circumstan…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman with mild dementia is admitted from home with three days of confusion that fluctuates and is worse at night. She is drowsy but rousable and…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist