Placements
50 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 34-year-old man who came to Australia from Somalia six years ago is reviewed by his general practitioner for a depressive episode. After eight weeks of sertra…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 52-year-old man born in Vietnam, who has had schizophrenia for 25 years, comes to an emergency department with six hours of epigastric pain. He speaks limited…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old girl with profound intellectual disability and cerebral palsy attends a gynaecology clinic with both parents and her treating psychiatrist. She is…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman is an involuntary inpatient at an authorised hospital in Perth with a severe depressive episode with psychotic features. She has not respond…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 31-year-old man with schizophrenia stopped his aripiprazole six weeks ago because of restlessness. His mother brings him to a Perth community mental health cl…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 46-year-old man taking venlafaxine 225 mg daily for depression is admitted after a fall at work. The orthopaedic team started slow-release tramadol two days a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 29-year-old woman is admitted with a first manic episode. She has not slept for four nights, has telephoned strangers at 3 am and has spent her rent money on…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 32-year-old man with bipolar I disorder has been euthymic for three years on sodium valproate 1200 mg daily, after two manic admissions in his twenties. At a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 46-year-old man with schizophrenia has taken clozapine 400 mg daily for four years without a dose change. Over the past ten days he has become drowsy in the a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old man is reviewed by the intern on a general medical ward. His wife died sixteen months ago. He says he thinks about her for most of every day, stil…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
An 81-year-old woman has a severe depressive episode with nihilistic delusions. She has refused all food and fluid for four days and is dehydrated, saying that…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
An 80-year-old woman is admitted for assessment of cognitive decline. Her daughter says her memory 'fell off a cliff' in the five months since her husband died.…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 16-year-old Aboriginal boy is brought to a regional clinic by his aunt six weeks after his grandmother died. He says he hears his grandmother calling his name…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 29-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder has been in dialectical behaviour therapy for four months. Her self-harm has fallen from weekly to once…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 16-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa weighing 39 kg was admitted three days ago and nasogastric feeding was commenced and increased daily. He has received th…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 26-year-old woman with a two-year eating disorder is admitted with cramps and profound weakness. She weighs 58 kg and has not lost weight. She denies vomiting…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 26-year-old woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse collapses in the emergency department waiting room and develops generalised shaking. Twelve minutes…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 36-year-old woman was abused by a relative between the ages of six and sixteen. She has nightmares about it, avoids the suburb where it happened and startles…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old woman has been an inpatient for five weeks with a severe depressive episode. She has completed adequate trials of sertraline and then venlafaxine…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 62-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic eight weeks after an anterior myocardial infarction. He meets criteria for a moderate depressive episode…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche