Placements
215 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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 29-year-old woman has had eight episodes over four months in which her heart pounds, she cannot get enough air, her hands tingle and she becomes certain she i…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
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 24-year-old woman started sertraline 50 mg daily eleven days ago for a moderate depressive episode, with no previous psychiatric history. She telephones to sa…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
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
A general practice registrar is deciding which antidepressant to start for a 40-year-old man with a first episode of major depression of moderate severity. She…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia has been taking clozapine for 17 days, titrated to 250 mg daily after two other antipsychotics failed. He reports three day…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A general practice registrar reads a news report that the Australian regulator has issued a new warning about a mood stabiliser she prescribes, concerning a pos…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 31-year-old woman stopped paroxetine four days ago; she had taken 20 mg daily for eight months for panic disorder and ran out of tablets while interstate for…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 23-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia started clozapine eighteen days ago and now takes 250 mg daily. He tells the nurse he feels as though h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman consults her general practitioner five weeks after her relationship ended. She feels flat most days, cries easily and takes an hour to fall…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old boy is brought to a general practice by his mother, who says he has become withdrawn over four months. He has stopped playing football, his marks…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man with schizophrenia, well for two years on aripiprazole 15 mg daily, has not collected a prescription for six weeks and is again hearing neighb…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia has been prescribed risperidone 6 mg daily for eight weeks since his first admission. He still hears two voices commenting…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 44-year-old woman is seen in the emergency department after telling her general practitioner that she felt like giving up. She has four weeks of low mood, poo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old girl is brought to her general practitioner by her father. Over eight months she has stopped seeing friends, dropped from an A to a D average, sle…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a four-week history of persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions. He has used methamphetamine most days for a…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-month-old girl is observed in a research playroom during brief separations from and reunions with her mother. On each reunion she runs towards her mother,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 31-year-old woman is seen two months after her small business failed. She is tearful, sleeps poorly and has withdrawn from friends, but continues to care for…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old boy is brought in by his mother because of his behaviour over the past two months. Since his parents separated he has sworn at teachers, walked ou…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist