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A 78-year-old woman presents with sudden painless loss of vision in her right eye on waking this morning. For the past three weeks she has had a right-sided hea…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 72-year-old woman presents with an ulcer above her left medial malleolus that has been present for eight weeks. She has type 2 diabetes and smoked a packet of…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman presents with severe pain in her left leg that began abruptly two hours ago while she was sitting watching television. She walks to the shop…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man sustains a closed fracture of the midshaft of the left tibia playing football. A plaster backslab with encircling crepe bandage is applied and…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 76-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation, whose apixaban was stopped three weeks ago after a fall, presents with four hours of severe constant central abdom…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 35-year-old man is admitted six hours after a house fire with burns to 25% of his body surface area, including a burn encircling the entire right forearm wher…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 78-year-old man from a residential aged care facility, with long-standing constipation, presents with three days of increasing abdominal distension and no pas…

Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common

A 59-year-old man presents with eight hours of continuous vertigo, vomiting and difficulty walking. He has spontaneous right-beating nystagmus and no hearing lo…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 64-year-old woman develops sudden, profound painless loss of vision in her left eye 90 minutes before assessment. The left pupil has a relative afferent pupil…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common

A 72-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a sudden onset of severe right leg pain over the past 3 hours. He also reports numbness and weakness…

Year 4 · Clinical rotations · middle twist