Placements
138 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 40-year-old man who came to Australia from Iraq as a refugee eight years ago attends a general practice with six months of broken sleep, nightmares and daily…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A metropolitan mental health service is examining why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inpatients leave the ward against medical advice far more often than…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old Aboriginal man is brought to a regional hospital by his aunt six weeks after his grandfather's funeral. At night he hears his grandfather calling…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports causes of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people. Among Aboriginal and…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl is brought to a general practice by her mother, who is worried about three months of falling grades, weight loss and irritability. After the…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy attends a child and adolescent mental health clinic for severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The psychiatrist explains the risks, b…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the resident on a Perth adult psychiatric inpatient unit. A 41-year-old man with bipolar disorder is a voluntary inpatient and has capacity. Over one we…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman with mild Alzheimer disease is an inpatient with a severe depressive episode. Electroconvulsive therapy is proposed. An hour after the discu…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia has been made an involuntary inpatient at an authorised hospital in Perth under the Mental Health Act 2014 (WA) after refus…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman is brought to a Perth general practice by her daughter, with whom she lives, for a third presentation this year with dehydration. She has l…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 49-year-old woman with schizophrenia has taken olanzapine for 12 years and attends a community clinic. Over three months she has become thirsty, gets up twice…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old carpenter has had a major depressive episode for seven months. He completed eight weeks of sertraline 100 mg daily with no change, then twelve wee…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man had a first episode of schizophrenia nine months ago and has remained well on risperidone. He lives with his mother, who gave up her part-time…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia has been well for 18 months on paliperidone palmitate and attends a community mental health team. He lives with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old Aboriginal man attends a general practice in a regional Western Australian town six weeks after his uncle died. He sleeps poorly, has stopped goin…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is brought by his mother, who says he never sits still, runs off in car parks and has been asked to leave two childcare centres. He was born at…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 35-year-old intern is caring for a 62-year-old woman with alcohol-related liver disease on a general medical ward. She is the same age as his mother and speak…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old university student in a wheat-belt town has had six weeks of low mood, poor concentration and loss of interest since failing two units. There is n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman has been in hospital for eleven days with a severe depressive episode. She is convinced her bowel has rotted away and that she is being puni…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 33-year-old woman is reviewed six weeks after the birth of her first child. She has persistent low mood, early morning waking, poor concentration and guilt at…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist