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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

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A 71-year-old woman who speaks only Vietnamese is ready to leave the emergency department after chest pain with normal troponin results. She is to start a new m…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · common

A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 9-year-old girl is brought to a Western Australian emergency department by her mother with three weeks of intermittent abdominal pain. While her mother is out…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

An 84-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after tripping on a rug at home. Radiographs of her wrist and hip show no fracture. She has not been…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 63-year-old man presents 30 hours after a garden fork went through his boot into the sole of his foot while he was turning manure. The puncture is 2 cm deep a…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 58-year-old man is treated in the emergency department for a Colles fracture sustained tripping over a gutter. He smokes 25 cigarettes a day and lights the fi…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance after being found unrousable at home. She had swallowed six of her flatmate's morphine tablets, which he takes tw…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 41-year-old bricklayer attends the emergency department after cutting his forearm on a broken glass door at home. The wound is cleaned and sutured. On routine…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 23-year-old woman is medically cleared six hours after taking 20 of her flatmate's quetiapine tablets at the end of a relationship. She says she regrets it, i…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman is being discharged from the emergency department after a fall at home with an undisplaced pubic ramus fracture on radiography. She can weig…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 6-year-old boy fell from a trampoline five hours ago onto grass. He cried immediately and did not lose consciousness. He vomited once at the scene and not sin…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

The mother of a 5-year-old girl admitted to a Perth public hospital with gastroenteritis tells the bedside nurse that her daughter is going flat and is not hers…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes.…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old man collapses in a shopping centre and is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation is unsuccessful and he is declared…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

An intern covering a Perth hospital's wards and its residential aged care liaison service is asked about five deaths in one afternoon. All five are Western Aust…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 89-year-old man with advanced dementia is in the emergency department with aspiration pneumonia. He cannot retain or weigh information about treatment. He ma…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 68-year-old woman is brought to a Perth emergency department unconscious after her neighbour found her with empty amitriptyline packets and a note. Her airway…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 58-year-old man dies in the resuscitation bay after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. His wife and adult daughter have been waiting in the relatives room wit…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 61-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic cancer is in the emergency department short-stay unit with vomiting. She already knows her disease is incurable.…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 82-year-old woman with advanced dementia is admitted to a Perth hospital with a fractured neck of femur. She cannot repeat back or weigh up any part of the d…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist