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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 46-year-old woman is admitted with two days of vomiting and lightheadedness. Her regular tablets are alendronate, esomeprazole and prednisolone, all of which…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after his motorcycle struck a guard rail. The ambulance officers report that he lost his output…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted with fever and dysuria. Blood cultures were taken and she received gentamicin and amoxicillin within 40 minutes of arrival. She…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 63-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lower lip and the left side of his tongue. There is no rash and nothing itches. His voice is normal, his ch…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman arrives 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. She has widespread weals, a hoarse voice and expiratory wheeze. Blood pressure…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man who works at a piggery near Griffith, New South Wales, is brought in one February with four days of fever and headache and one day of confusio…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, is 13 weeks and 2 days pregnant by a dating scan at 8 weeks. She has had six hours of moderate vaginal bleeding and cramp…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old warehouse worker has had low back pain for three weeks since lifting a pallet. For the past two days the pain has run down both legs to the feet.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic after a single episode of loss of consciousness while sitting at his desk. There was no warning and no pa…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 44-year-old man presents three hours after a sudden severe occipital headache that reached its worst within a minute while he was straining at stool. He vomit…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman describes losing the sight of her right eye over a few seconds while watching television 90 minutes ago. It has not come back and she now se…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 71-year-old man presents with two hours of severe left loin pain radiating into the groin, with vomiting. He has never had pain like this before. He smokes 20…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is brought to a Perth emergency department by his brother. For six weeks he has slept about two hours a night, has given away his car and most…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 81-year-old man is three days from a hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur. Overnight he believes he is on a fishing boat and asks his wife about tw…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 23-year-old university student is reviewed after being given a salbutamol inhaler by a locum six months ago. He uses it about three times most weeks for chest…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man with treated hypertension develops severe pain between his shoulder blades while carrying a bag of potting mix. It was as bad in the first few…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old man with osteoarthritis is brought in three hours after taking twenty-four modified-release paracetamol tablets, each 665 mg, at one sitting. He w…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 26-year-old woman weighing 60 kg presents five hours after swallowing an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets. She is alert with normal obs…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 24-year-old motorcyclist is brought in thirty minutes after a high-speed collision. Blood is pulsing from a deep laceration on the medial aspect of his left t…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old man is brought in after his utility vehicle struck a tree at speed. He is pale and cold and speaks in short phrases. Heart rate 132/min, blood pre…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common