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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a first episode of psychosis after eight weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices. He has never taken an antipsychotic. His bo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 21-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department at 2 am by police after he was found standing on a freeway overpass. He says a voice has been te…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by police after being found shouting at parked cars. He is guarded, gives his name and little else, and…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old is brought to the general practitioner by his father, whose own brother has schizophrenia. Over eight months the boy's grades have fallen, he has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 25-year-old man has taken risperidone 4 mg at night for six months for schizophrenia, and his voices and persecutory beliefs have gone. His mother says he now…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman is reviewed at home on day 8 after the birth of her first child. Over three days she has slept about two hours a night, talks rapidly about…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 23-year-old apprentice has had persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions continuously for three months. He has stopped attending work and rarel…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
An 81-year-old widow has told her general practitioner at three visits over four months that a neighbour lets himself into her flat at night and moves her furni…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old woman, whose mother died six weeks ago, tells her general practitioner that she has three times seen and spoken with her mother in the family home…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is admitted at 11 pm with a first episode of psychosis. He has had six weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions, and…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 21-year-old student is brought to the emergency department at 3 am by his housemates. He has slept two hours in three days and has drunk eight cups of coffee.…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department at 2 am by police. He has been using methamphetamine for three days, and is pacing, sweating and shouti…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by friends two hours after a party. He is frightened, is convinced the other guests were laughing at hi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 63-year-old woman has taken slow-release morphine for eighteen months for pain from vertebral metastases, prescribed and reviewed monthly by her oncologist. S…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 29-year-old man is seen by the consultation-liaison team. Over the past twelve months he has needed steadily more alcohol for the same effect, has twice tried…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted after a fall at home. She says she takes 'a sleeping tablet now and then' and drinks 'a small sherry before bed'. Her speech is…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman attends for a routine health check. She drinks four to five standard drinks on each of five evenings a week and has done so for three years.…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 27-year-old man attends a community drug and alcohol service at 9 am asking to start buprenorphine. He has injected heroin daily for four years and last injec…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist