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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
You are the intern covering a paediatric ward at a Perth public hospital at 2100. The mother of a 6-year-old boy admitted this morning with fever and vomiting s…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman is admitted overnight with a fractured neck of femur after a fall at home. She has had no chest pain, breathlessness or palpitations. Preop…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 34-year-old woman born in Vietnam is investigated for tiredness. Her periods are normal, she eats meat, takes no medicines, and was told she was slightly anae…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 62-year-old woman attends the emergency department after tripping on a step. She has a grazed knee, is otherwise well, takes only atorvastatin and passes urin…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl falls from the monkey bars onto an outstretched right hand. She holds the elbow semi-flexed with diffuse swelling over the distal humerus, and…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted with three days of increasing breathlessness. She has smoked 30 cigarettes a day for 40 years and has lost 6 kg over three month…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department after a heavy tackle at football. He is alert and orientated with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 1…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 24-year-old man comes off a trail bike at speed and arrives in a semi-rigid cervical collar and head blocks applied at the scene. He opens his eyes to voice,…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 7-year-old girl falls from the monkey bars onto an outstretched right hand. She is tender about 2 cm proximal to the wrist with mild swelling, no deformity, f…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old boy returns to the emergency department 18 hours after a below-knee plaster cast was applied for an undisplaced fracture of the distal tibia. He h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 41-year-old woman is bitten by her cat three hours ago. She has two puncture wounds over the dorsum of the right hand, one of them directly over the second me…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old man who moved to Australia two years ago stands on a nail while clearing out a chicken run. He presents 30 hours later with a deep puncture throug…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman catches her shin on a tow bar. There is a 6 cm triangular flap of skin over the front of the lower leg, based distally, pink to its tip, wi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 27-year-old man is brought in after his motorcycle struck a guardrail. A binder has been applied for an open-book pelvic fracture and he is haemodynamically s…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 88-year-old woman in residential aged care has had an indwelling urethral catheter for eight months for a neurogenic bladder, and it will be needed indefinit…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 84-year-old man with prostate cancer and bone metastases is catheterised in the emergency department for painless retention that has built up over several we…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern covering a medical ward at 2 am. A 61-year-old woman with cirrhosis due to hepatitis C is admitted with hepatic encephalopathy; she is drowsy…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old man on the stroke unit has a fine-bore nasogastric tube inserted for feeding after a large middle cerebral artery infarct. Insertion was straightf…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man with type 2 diabetes is brought to the emergency department by his wife because he has become sweaty, tremulous and muddled at home. His capil…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 19-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes is on the surgical ward the evening after an appendicectomy. Two hours after her usual insulin she becomes sweaty and t…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist