Placements
465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
At a hospital grand round on mental health funding, a registrar is asked how much Australia spends on mental health. She finds several different figures in circ…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
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 29-year-old man with bipolar I disorder is reviewed in the community mental health clinic. He was admitted at 22 with a manic episode and stopped lithium thre…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old woman has been fully well for eight months on sertraline 100 mg daily. This is her fourth depressive episode; the previous three, at 30, 34 and 39…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 Over three months he has withdrawn from the family, stopped eating with them…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
A 79-year-old woman was started on sertraline three weeks ago for her first depressive episode. Her daughter brings her to the emergency department because over…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl is brought by her mother, who says that for four months she has snapped at everyone, slipped from top of the class to failing, given up netba…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman attends the child health clinic six weeks after an uncomplicated birth. For a month she has felt flat throughout the day, has taken no pleas…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
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 64-year-old woman attends the general practice with six weeks of low mood, tearfulness, broken sleep and loss of interest in everything she used to enjoy. Fiv…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 61-year-old man is brought by his daughter seven months after his wife died. He has lost 9 kg, wakes at 3 am, and has not gone back to the bowls club or to hi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 27-year-old man is assessed in the emergency department short-stay unit with three weeks of low mood, waking at 4 am and hopelessness. He has had two similar…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman is referred because of mood swings since her late teens. Twice in two years she has had six-day spells of sleeping three hours a night, talk…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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
A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old university student had her first episode of psychosis nine months ago and has been in full remission on aripiprazole for the past seven months. Sh…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia took risperidone 6 mg daily for ten weeks and then olanzapine 20 mg daily for twelve weeks. His case manager supervises eac…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has recovered from his first episode of schizophrenia and has been well on aripiprazole for four months. He has moved back in with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist