Psychiatry
142 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by friends two hours after a party. He is frightened, is convinced the other guests were laughing at hi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man is seen by the consultation-liaison team. Over the past twelve months he has needed steadily more alcohol for the same effect, has twice tried…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted after a fall at home. She says she takes 'a sleeping tablet now and then' and drinks 'a small sherry before bed'. Her speech is…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman attends for a routine health check. She drinks four to five standard drinks on each of five evenings a week and has done so for three years.…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 47-year-old man completed inpatient alcohol withdrawal and has been abstinent for eight days. He wants medication to help him stay off alcohol and is attendin…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is on the second postoperative day after an elective right hemicolectomy. Overnight he became restless and drenched with sweat; this morning h…
Clinical rotations · common
A general practitioner in a regional town is asked to run a drug and alcohol education session at the local secondary school. Media coverage over the past year…
Clinical rotations · common
A 72-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam forty years ago is brought to a memory clinic by her son, who describes two years of gradually worsening…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 78-year-old woman is brought by her daughter because over eighteen months she has become slower at finding words and repeatedly mislays her keys. She still dr…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man is brought by his wife because for the past year he has described the small children who come into the lounge room most afternoons; he can say…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman was admitted three days ago with cellulitis, which is settling on flucloxacillin. Since yesterday she has been muddled at night, insists th…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 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
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
You are the intern on a geriatric medicine ward in Perth. An 84-year-old woman who developed a hyperactive delirium during her admission for pneumonia is being…
Clinical rotations · niche
A 23-year-old woman is brought in by her partner with three weeks of escalating persecutory beliefs, agitation and rambling speech. Over the past week he has no…
Clinical rotations · niche
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 26-year-old man has waited four hours in the emergency department to be seen about a hand injury. He is now standing at the triage window, speaking loudly and…
Clinical rotations · common
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