Psychiatry
152 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 34-year-old man who came to Australia from Somalia six years ago is reviewed by his general practitioner for a depressive episode. After eight weeks of sertra…
Pre-internship · niche
A 71-year-old woman who migrated from Hong Kong 40 years ago is admitted to a psychiatric ward with a severe depressive episode. She speaks Cantonese and almost…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 52-year-old man born in Vietnam, who has had schizophrenia for 25 years, comes to an emergency department with six hours of epigastric pain. He speaks limited…
Pre-internship · niche
A 38-year-old Aboriginal woman is on the caseload of a metropolitan community mental health team after her third admission this year for a depressive episode wi…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old man is reviewed in a memory clinic. Over the past year he has twice been brought home by police after becoming lost while driving to familiar plac…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl is seen alone at a youth health service, where she has been attending for low mood. Today she tells you that for the past fortnight she has b…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl with profound intellectual disability and cerebral palsy attends a gynaecology clinic with both parents and her treating psychiatrist. She is…
Pre-internship · niche
A psychiatry registrar in Perth tells you, a fellow registrar, that since his father died four months ago he has had low mood, waking at 4 am and poor concentra…
Pre-internship · common
You are an intern on a Perth psychiatry ward. At handover for the evening shift the other intern smells strongly of alcohol, is unsteady and slurring slightly,…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a final-year medical student on a Perth psychiatry ward. During the ward round the registrar tells a nursing student, in front of the patient and the wh…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is an inpatient with a first episode of psychosis. He has capacity and told the team yesterday, without being asked, that his family are not t…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a psychiatry registrar in a country town in Western Australia. A close friend from your football club telephones you at home. He has slept badly for thr…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A psychiatry registrar treated a 29-year-old woman for a depressive episode in a Perth outpatient clinic, seeing her weekly for eight months. She was discharged…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 38-year-old man with bipolar I disorder has been well on lithium for two years. At review he says he has decided to stop it because of tremor and a 9 kg weigh…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is an involuntary inpatient at an authorised hospital in Perth with a severe depressive episode with psychotic features. She has not respond…
Pre-internship · niche
A 31-year-old man with schizophrenia stopped his aripiprazole six weeks ago because of restlessness. His mother brings him to a Perth community mental health cl…
Pre-internship · niche
A 46-year-old woman was admitted as a voluntary patient to an authorised psychiatric hospital in Perth three days ago with a severe depressive episode. This mor…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman attends a Perth general practice for insomnia. On direct questioning she says her partner pushed her into a wall last week, checks her phone…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy is brought to a Perth emergency department by his mother with a spiral fracture of the left humerus. He also has a healing circular burn on the…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on an adult inpatient psychiatric unit. At the morning meeting the occupational therapist reports that a woman due for discharge tomorrow cou…
Pre-internship · middle twist