AMSA Study Guide
82 free questions tagged AMSA Study Guide, each with a full explanation of every option.
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A 58-year-old man who smokes and drinks heavily presents with a painless lump below the angle of his left jaw that he first noticed six weeks ago and which has…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 61-year-old woman reports two weeks of brief episodes of the room spinning, lasting less than 30 seconds, that happen when she rolls over in bed to the right,…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man had a closed mid-shaft tibial fracture reduced and placed in a below-knee cast eight hours ago after a football tackle. He now has severe pain…
Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man fell onto his outstretched right hand playing football two days ago. He has pain at the base of the thumb that is worse gripping. On examinati…
Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Clinical rotations · common
A 78-year-old man presents with three days of inability to pass urine and a painful lower abdomen, on a background of months of a poor stream and nocturia. A ur…
Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · niche
A 63-year-old man who has smoked for 40 years and worked for 20 years in a tyre factory reports that on two occasions in the last month his urine has been brigh…
Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old man who smokes 20 cigarettes a day has an ultrasound of the abdomen for vague right upper quadrant discomfort. The gallbladder is normal, but the…
Surgery and Perioperative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 72-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation who stopped her anticoagulant six months ago after a nosebleed wakes at 3 am with sudden severe pain in her left le…
Surgery and Perioperative Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 76-year-old man reports that for three months he has felt light-headed and has twice nearly fainted walking up the hill to the shops, together with a tight fe…
Cardiovascular · Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old man who injects heroin presents with two weeks of fevers, sweats, a cough and pleuritic chest pain on both sides. His temperature is 39.2 °C, puls…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 70 kg man requires debridement and suturing of an 18 cm laceration on his forearm in the emergency department. There is no adrenaline-containing local anaesth…
Emergency and Toxicology · Mechanisms of disease · common
A 27-year-old man is brought in 20 minutes after his motorcycle struck a tree at speed. He is agitated, with a respiratory rate of 38/min, oxygen saturation 84%…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 62-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes is booked for an elective laparoscopic right hemicolectomy for a caecal cancer in one week. She will be fasting from mi…
Surgery and Perioperative Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old man is on day 2 after an emergency Hartmann procedure for perforated diverticulitis. He takes spironolactone and perindopril for heart failure. He…
Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old interstate truck driver has had two unprovoked generalised tonic-clonic seizures in the past month and a diagnosis of epilepsy has been confirmed…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · middle twist
A new screening blood test for a cancer has a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 95%. It is proposed for use in the general population aged 50–74, in whom…
General Practice and Population Health · Mechanisms of disease · common
A 22-year-old woman is brought from a music festival by paramedics. She is agitated and confused, her temperature is 39.8 °C, pulse 132/min, blood pressure 158/…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old woman presents six hours after taking 30 × 500 mg paracetamol tablets in a single impulsive act following an argument. She also took "a few&q…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man started lamotrigine 16 days ago for newly diagnosed epilepsy. For three days he has had fever, sore eyes and painful mouth ulcers that make sw…
Dermatology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 52-year-old fair-skinned man who worked outdoors for 30 years presents because his wife noticed that a mole on his upper back has changed. It is now 8 mm acro…
Dermatology · Clinical rotations · common