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Psychiatry

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

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

An 82-year-old man with Alzheimer disease diagnosed four years ago lives in residential care, where he usually plays cards each afternoon and needs help only wi…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 34-year-old man with schizophrenia has relapsed twice in nine months, on each occasion a few weeks after stopping his oral risperidone. He is currently well,…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 31-year-old woman is reviewed at home by the perinatal mental health team three weeks after the birth of her first child. She has not slept for four nights, h…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 19-year-old university student is in the emergency department six hours after her flatmate found her drowsy on the bathroom floor beside an empty blister pack…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 86-year-old man who lives alone is brought to the emergency department by his daughter because he has been muddled for two days and twice called her by his l…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 72-year-old woman born in Vietnam attends with her daughter, who reports that over two years her mother has become repetitive, has twice left the stove burnin…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old man has been in hospital for ten days with a severe depressive episode. He is convinced that his bowel has rotted away and that he is being punish…

Pre-internship · middle twist

Police bring a 54-year-old man to the emergency department at 2 am after he shouted at passing cars and swung at an officer. He is known to the mental health se…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 62-year-old accountant is brought to the emergency department by police after he shoved a shop assistant who asked him to stop taking lollies from an open dis…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after threatening a neighbour with a length of timber. He is shouting, will not sit, and has twi…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 78-year-old man admitted a fortnight ago with a first psychotic illness had his risperidone increased from 1 mg to 3 mg daily seven days ago. Since then he ha…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 31-year-old man is waiting to be seen in a busy emergency department, brought in by his brother, who says he has stopped his medication. He has schizophrenia…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 22-year-old apprentice is brought to a regional emergency department by friends at 11 pm after telling them he wanted to die. Six hours later his breath alcoh…

Pre-internship · middle twist

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…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 76-year-old woman was admitted five days ago with a severe depressive episode. Her general practitioner started amitriptyline 75 mg at night three weeks ago a…

Pre-internship · 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…

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…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are the intern covering the orthopaedic ward at 2 am. A 79-year-old man, two days after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur, is climbing over the…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 46-year-old accountant is brought in by his wife. Over five weeks he has become convinced that his neighbours are broadcasting his thoughts to the street, and…

Pre-internship · middle twist

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…

Clinical rotations · middle twist