Preventative medicine

You are the intern attached to a regional public health unit. Its annual child health profile for a town of 4,000 people reports: two-dose measles-mumps-rubella…

Pre-internship · niche

A coastal local government area has recorded four drownings of children under five years of age in five years, every one of them in a backyard swimming pool at…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A local health district in western Sydney surveys its primary schools and finds that one in three children aged 5 to 12 years is above the healthy weight range,…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are a general practice registrar in a Western Australian coastal town of 6000 people. Over the past year the proportion of five-year-olds recorded as fully…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 6-year-old Aboriginal boy attends a Perth general practice with his mother for a certificate to return to school after chickenpox. He is well, fully immunised…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A public health registrar is reviewing a local council's childhood injury prevention plan after a rise in emergency department presentations for household poiso…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old girl attends a general practice with her father for a pre-kindergarten check. Her weight is above the 97th centile and her body mass index has been…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is treated in the emergency department for a Colles fracture sustained tripping over a gutter. He smokes 25 cigarettes a day and lights the fi…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 41-year-old bricklayer attends the emergency department after cutting his forearm on a broken glass door at home. The wound is cleaned and sutured. On routine…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 52-year-old man attends for a health assessment. He does not smoke, has no diabetes, chronic kidney disease or established cardiovascular disease, and his fat…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 46-year-old woman has a body mass index of 32 kg/m² and treated hypertension. Her mother developed type 2 diabetes at 58 years of age. She has no polyuria, po…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 30-year-old Aboriginal man attends a regional clinic for an annual health assessment. He feels well, smokes ten cigarettes daily, drinks alcohol most weekends…

Clinical rotations · middle twist