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215 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

Practise theseOne at a time, in a random order, with the explanation after each.

A 74-year-old woman is referred three months after her husband died. Two or three times a week, while she is standing at the kitchen sink, she hears him call he…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man attends his general practice for review of his mood. Asked how he has been sleeping, he begins with the layout of his bedroom, moves on to the…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman has had a gritty, watering right eye since walking home through a dust storm yesterday afternoon. It hurts most when she blinks. She has nev…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old boy is screened at his preschool in Sydney under the state vision screening programme. Using a matching-letter chart he scores 6/9 in the left eye…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old man with type 2 diabetes of 14 years attends his general practice for review. His most recent glycated haemoglobin is 9.4% (79 mmol/mol) and his b…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 71-year-old man with long-standing poorly controlled hypertension wakes to find the vision in his left eye blurred. There is no pain, no flashing lights and n…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old woman has twice walked into the left-hand door frame this month and has scraped the driver's side of her car. She has noticed nothing wrong with h…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old Aboriginal man attends his general practice in a regional town for a diabetes review. Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed four years ago. His HbA1c is 5…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 52-year-old woman wakes with a drooping right eyelid and double vision. She has had a boring pain behind the right eye since yesterday. When the lid is lifted…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 31-year-old cyclist has had a gritty, watering right eye since riding home in a strong wind two days ago. It hurts most each time he blinks. Visual acuity is…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 28-year-old man has had a deep ache in the right eye for three days with blurred vision. The right eye is red, most intensely in a narrow ring around the corn…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 26-year-old primary school teacher has had a red, watering right eye for four days; the left eye became red two days ago. She had a sore throat the week befor…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 7-year-old boy is ready to leave a Perth emergency department six hours after a moderate asthma flare-up. He has had salbutamol by spacer and a first dose of…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 78-year-old woman is being discharged after an admission with melaena. She takes apixaban for atrial fibrillation. Gastroscopy showed a bleeding duodenal ulce…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are the intern in a Perth emergency department at 0200. Paramedics have just handed over a 78-year-old woman brought in after a fall at home, using the stru…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman born in Vietnam is investigated for tiredness. Her periods are normal, she eats meat, takes no medicines, and was told she was slightly anae…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old woman is admitted with three days of increasing breathlessness. She has smoked 30 cigarettes a day for 40 years and has lost 6 kg over three month…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department after a heavy tackle at football. He is alert and orientated with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 1…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche

A 7-year-old girl falls from the monkey bars onto an outstretched right hand. She is tender about 2 cm proximal to the wrist with mild swelling, no deformity, f…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist