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A 17-year-old girl presents six hours after a deliberate ingestion of tablets taken from the family bathroom cabinet. She complains of nausea, repeated vomiting…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old woman presents six weeks after the birth of her first child. She tearfully describes vivid, unwanted images of smothering the baby with a pillow t…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 31-year-old primigravida at 33 weeks gestation reports one week of intense generalised itching that is worst at night and most severe over her palms and the s…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old primigravida gives birth vaginally at 38 weeks gestation. During labour she was commenced on oral labetalol for blood pressure readings of 160/108…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, is in spontaneous labour at 39 weeks gestation. One hour after her cervix was 5 cm dilated, the membranes rupture spontan…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old woman attends her general practitioner eight weeks after the vaginal birth of her first child. Her pregnancy was complicated by gestational diabet…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-day-old girl is brought to the emergency department after her mother measured an axillary temperature of 38.3°C at home. She was born at term after an unco…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man presents with five days of fever, drenching sweats, severe headache behind the eyes and aching muscles. He started work at a rural Queensland…
General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman presents ten days after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery under epidural analgesia with four days of worsening headache, which she says is w…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 45-year-old woman is admitted with epigastric pain radiating to the back and a serum lipase of 2400 U/L (<60). Ultrasound shows multiple small stones in the g…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman presents with two days of constant right upper quadrant and epigastric pain. Overnight she had two episodes of violent, uncontrollable shaki…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common
A 22-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of lower abdominal pain that began around the umbilicus and is now most marked on the rig…
Surgery and Perioperative Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 64-year-old man with type 2 diabetes has an HbA1c of 62 mmol/mol (7.8%) despite maximal-dose metformin and attention to diet and activity. He had a myocardial…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 35-year-old man born in Vietnam attends for pre-employment health screening and is found to have the following results: HBsAg negative, anti-HBs positive at 8…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man is reviewed after routine blood tests show ALT 68 U/L (<40), AST 44 U/L (<40) and GGT 80 U/L (<60). He has type 2 diabetes and hypertension, h…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common
A 54-year-old man with cirrhosis secondary to chronic hepatitis C presents with two episodes of haematemesis over the past hour. On arrival his blood pressure i…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 10-week pregnant woman is found to be non-immune to rubella during antenatal screening. She has no symptoms and has never had an immediate hypersensitivity re…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old swimmer has had increasing right ear pain for three days. Moving the pinna and pressing the tragus markedly worsen the pain, and the external cana…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman wants highly effective contraception and would prefer predictable light bleeding. She does not want a method requiring daily action and has…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 45-year-old man becomes acutely unwell after receiving approximately 20 mL of an incompatible red-cell unit. He develops fever, severe flank pain, hypotension…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common