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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia has been well for 18 months on paliperidone palmitate and attends a community mental health team. He lives with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 41-year-old woman has had panic attacks with avoidance of buses and shopping centres for two years. Another doctor started diazepam 5 mg twice daily eight mon…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old primary school teacher describes six months of constant worry, difficulty getting to sleep and irritability that is now affecting her teaching. Sh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old Aboriginal man attends a general practice in a regional Western Australian town six weeks after his uncle died. He sleeps poorly, has stopped goin…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old woman who came to Australia from Afghanistan four years ago is brought to the emergency department by her adult son. For a week she has cried most…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl has lost 11 kg over eight months. She eats from a short list of permitted foods, exercises for two hours daily and says she is still too fat;…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is brought by his mother, who says he never sits still, runs off in car parks and has been asked to leave two childcare centres. He was born at…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 35-year-old intern is caring for a 62-year-old woman with alcohol-related liver disease on a general medical ward. She is the same age as his mother and speak…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman known to the community mental health service comes to the emergency department at 11 pm after an argument with her partner. She is tearful a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman has presented to the emergency department nine times in two years after cutting her forearms. She describes chronic emptiness, intense and u…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 38-year-old woman has a third depressive episode. It began four months after her mother died and she moved interstate for work, leaving the friends and commun…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · 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 71-year-old woman is receiving right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy three times a week for melancholic depression. After the fifth treatment she is eati…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 23-year-old woman with bipolar I disorder has had two manic episodes in 18 months and stopped lithium because of intolerable tremor and polyuria. The psychiat…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia remains persistently deluded and hears voices for most of each day. He has completed eight weeks of risperidone 6 mg daily…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 58-year-old woman telephones the practice at 5 pm. She has read an online news article claiming that a medicine she has taken for three years has been linked…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist