Placements
215 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 44-year-old man attends the community mental health clinic. He has recurrent major depressive disorder and came home nine days ago after a two-week admission…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man was admitted three and a half days ago after a fall from a ladder; his wife said he drinks nightly at the club. He was settled and oriented fo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer is admitted from her retirement village because over four days she has become drowsy by day, restless at nigh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 47-year-old truck driver is referred by his general practitioner with insomnia and low mood after two months of exhaustion. He is in bed for nine hours a nigh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 71-year-old man is flown in from a remote Aboriginal community in the far north of Western Australia with his daughter, who says that over two years he has be…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
Eighteen months after her husband died, a 58-year-old woman is brought to the general practice by her daughter. She thinks about him for most of each day and ac…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A student writes up a new patient using a format taken from an older textbook: schizophrenia on Axis I, no personality disorder on Axis II, type 2 diabetes on A…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man with moderate depression agrees to start sertraline after a discussion of the options. He has no psychotic features, no manic history, takes n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A medical student presents a new admission at the morning meeting. She gives his age, occupation and living situation, the presenting complaint and its history,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 27-year-old man is interviewed on the ward. Asked why he came into hospital, he begins with the bus timetable, moves to his neighbour's dog and then to the pr…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman is referred with 'panic attacks': five months of episodes of pounding heartbeat, shaking hands and feeling unbearably hot, several of which…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old teacher completes a brief consumption-based alcohol screen at a routine health check. She reports two 100 mL glasses of wine on each of Monday to…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 40 is brought to the general practice by his daughter. Over two years he has become repetitiv…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia attends the clinic for review. Grinning broadly and giggling, he tells the registrar that his mother died last month and th…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A medical student takes an alcohol history from a 55-year-old man in a general practice clinic. In a rapid run, without pausing, she asks: 'You don't drink much…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 38-year-old woman is describing the end of her marriage at an outpatient appointment. She says she is fine about it now, honestly, while her voice shakes and…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 45-year-old man admitted involuntarily believes that a government agency has been recording him. He sits with his back to the wall, keeps the door in view, an…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 54-year-old restaurateur is brought by her husband with three weeks of elevated mood, sleeping two hours a night and plans to buy a second premises. She has n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 45 is referred because her family say she forgets appointments and repeats herself. She le…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 67-year-old Yolŋu man from a remote community in north-east Arnhem Land is admitted to a Darwin hospital for assessment of low mood and weight loss. His first…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist