AMSA Study Guide
82 free questions tagged AMSA Study Guide, each with a full explanation of every option.
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An 8-month-old boy is brought in because his 5-year-old cousin, who visited the house two days ago and played with him for an afternoon, has today been diagnose…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 7-month-old girl has had fever above 39 °C for seven days despite paracetamol. She is irritable and difficult to console. Her eyes are red without discharge,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy is worried that he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and his weight on the 10th; his…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old girl weighing 30 kg presents in diabetic ketoacidosis as the first presentation of type 1 diabetes: pH 7.02, glucose 34 mmol/L, bicarbonate 6 mmol/…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old girl is brought in by her mother, who felt a lump in the child's abdomen while bathing her. The child is well, eating normally and has not los…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old boy develops widespread bruising on his shins and trunk and a crop of pinpoint red spots on his legs over three days, two weeks after a cold. He is…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-day-old boy, born at term and discharged well at 24 hours, is brought back because he has become grey, floppy and uninterested in feeding over six hours. Hi…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl is found to have a heart murmur at a routine health check. She is thriving on the 50th centile, runs around the playground without becoming sh…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 12-month-old boy is due for his measles–mumps–rubella, meningococcal ACWY and pneumococcal vaccines. Three months ago he developed hives, facial swelling and…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-week-old girl is brought for her first immunisations; the family have recently arrived from overseas and she has had only the birth dose of hepatitis B vac…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche
An 18-month-old boy is brought by his parents because he has no words. He walked at 13 months and runs and climbs well. He does not point to show things, does n…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A term boy born by normal vaginal delivery after an uncomplicated pregnancy is noted by the midwife to be visibly jaundiced at 16 hours of age. He is feeding we…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman attends for the result of her first cervical screening test under the renewed National Cervical Screening Program. She is asymptomatic and h…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman with seven weeks of amenorrhoea and a positive home pregnancy test presents with two days of left-sided lower abdominal pain and light vagin…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman at 33 weeks in her third pregnancy, who smokes and has chronic hypertension, presents with two hours of constant severe abdominal pain that…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old woman in her first pregnancy presents at 36 weeks with a frontal headache and "flashing lights" for six hours. Her blood pressure was 11…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common
A 22-year-old man was struck on the right temple by a cricket ball three hours ago in a country town. He was briefly unconscious, then walked off the field and…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 79-year-old man on apixaban for atrial fibrillation is brought in by his wife. Over three weeks he has become slower, sleeps much of the day, has twice lost t…
Neurology · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman who wears soft contact lenses and often sleeps in them presents with 24 hours of an increasingly painful, red, watering right eye and marked…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 66-year-old man with atrial fibrillation presents 40 minutes after the sight in his left eye "went out like a light" while reading; there was no pai…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common