AMC

356 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

Practise theseOne at a time, in a random order, with the explanation after each.

A 29-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes refuses her evening insulin after becoming convinced that the injections are being used to poison her. She can repeat t…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common

A 24-year-old woman at 10 weeks of pregnancy has vomited repeatedly for three weeks and has lost 7 kg. She is alert, with a pulse of 104 beats/minute and blood…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 32-year-old woman presents at 7 weeks of pregnancy with left lower abdominal pain and light vaginal bleeding. The pregnancy followed in-vitro fertilisation, a…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman is reviewed 18 hours after an emergency caesarean section complicated by a 1.6 L postpartum haemorrhage. The bleeding has been controlled fo…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common

Thirty-five minutes after a vaginal birth, the placenta has not separated and the woman has lost 900 mL of blood. The uterus is firm, the placenta is palpable a…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 48-year-old woman taking sotalol for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation has two brief episodes of collapse. The ECG monitor records recurrent bursts of polymorphi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 67-year-old man with a previous anterior myocardial infarction develops palpitations while being monitored in hospital. He is alert, has a blood pressure of 1…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 38-year-old man develops left-sided neck pain and a new unilateral headache after forceful neck stretching. He has a mild left ptosis and a smaller left pupil…

Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old woman develops a sudden, severe headache while lifting a suitcase. It reaches maximal intensity within seconds and is followed by vomiting and nec…

Clinical rotations · common

A 35-year-old woman at 31 weeks’ gestation has six weeks of low mood, guilt and early-morning waking. During the past week she has stopped eating, believes her…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 27-year-old man with no previous psychiatric history is brought to hospital by his family after two weeks of little sleep, expansive business plans and increa…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old man with recurrent major depression tells his general practitioner that he intends to take all his prescribed medicines after his partner leaves f…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common

A 29-year-old man with schizophrenia is brought to the emergency department after threatening another patient. He is pacing, shouting and clenching his fists; h…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common

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 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 26-year-old backpacker is snorkelling off Port Douglas in far north Queensland in December when she feels a mild sting on her forearm, leaving only faint redn…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old man in suburban Sydney felt a sharp pinprick on the back of his hand while moving pot plants stacked against the house. Over the next two hours he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

An 84-year-old woman who lives alone is found to have a 2.5 cm breast mass, and core biopsy shows invasive carcinoma. The surgeon has recommended wide local exc…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common