Psychiatry
56 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A first-year doctor on a community mental health placement has been seeing a 24-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder. Over six weeks he has given…
Pre-internship · common
At 11 pm a 27-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder comes to the emergency department after her flatmate ended their friendship. She has three sup…
Pre-internship · common
A 38-year-old man on remand is referred to the prison health service for "anger management". He is charming and articulate. He was expelled from school at 13, h…
Clinical rotations · common
A 63-year-old retired postal worker is referred with four months of "insomnia". He falls asleep within ten minutes but wakes at about 4 am and cannot get back t…
Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old boy is brought by his parents because two or three nights a week, usually about an hour after falling asleep, he sits bolt upright and screams. He…
Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl attends your general practice with her mother, who announces at the desk that her daughter needs to go on the pill for her periods. In the ro…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl has lost 7 kg over eight months by cutting out fats and running before school, and is frightened of gaining weight. She is 160 cm tall and we…
Clinical rotations · common
Six days ago a 27-year-old childcare worker was the front-seat passenger in a head-on collision in which the driver was killed. Since then she has had intrusive…
Clinical rotations · common
A 23-year-old law student describes episodes that begin during arguments with her partner. She suddenly feels as though she has floated up to the ceiling and is…
Clinical rotations · common
A 38-year-old woman has attended your general practice eleven times in six months. Each visit follows a new bodily sensation - a headache, a skin blemish, a twi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 52-year-old woman attends your practice 20 to 30 times a year with headaches, bloating, dizziness and aching limbs that she says rule her days. She has had tw…
Clinical rotations · common
Three days ago a bus carrying school staff rolled on a country highway and two people died. A 44-year-old teacher who was on the bus is physically uninjured but…
Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old teacher describes eight months of constant worry about her students, her mortgage and her parents' health that she cannot switch off. She is tense…
Clinical rotations · common
Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night…
Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old woman is referred with six months of worry, restlessness and broken sleep. She has never been anxious before and can point to no trigger. She has…
Pre-internship · common
A 29-year-old woman has had six months of abrupt attacks of pounding heartbeat, breathlessness and tingling fingers that peak within minutes. They have come on…
Clinical rotations · common
A general practice in Perth is planning how to staff its mental health clinics and asks a medical student to summarise the most recent national data. The studen…
Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old primary school teacher has felt low, flat and tearful for seven weeks. She still gets to work every day but finds preparing lessons harder than us…
Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old farmer is brought to a regional emergency department by his brother. Over three months he has withdrawn from the family, stopped eating with them…
Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old man with a three-month depressive episode tells his general practitioner, quietly and without being asked, that he has been thinking about ending…
Clinical rotations · common