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379 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.

You are a junior doctor at a regional Western Australian hospital. Hospital data show that Aboriginal children in the district are admitted with skin infections…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A Perth tertiary hospital's ear, nose and throat department plans a programme to reduce chronic suppurative otitis media in a remote Aboriginal community 1500 k…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are a general practice registrar in Perth. A 3-year-old boy attends with his mother for a routine pre-kindergarten review recorded in his personal health re…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 6-year-old girl with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy attends a Perth outpatient clinic. She needs continuing physiotherapy and speech pathology to preserve fu…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 4-year-old Aboriginal boy from a remote Kimberley community has bilateral chronic suppurative otitis media with a 35 dB conductive hearing loss and delayed sp…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. A 6-year-old girl admitted with pneumonia tells you that a family friend does rude things to her when he babysits…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 9-year-old girl is brought to a Perth emergency department by her mother at 9 pm. At triage she told the nurse that her mother's partner puts his hands inside…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

You are the intern caring for a 3-year-old boy admitted with bronchiolitis at a Perth hospital. On the second night his mother tells you that his father drinks…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl attends a rural general practice for the fourth time in six months, twice with minor bruises and twice with abdominal pain. Dry at night for a…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

At 2 am you are the intern who admits a 2-year-old girl with a spiral fracture of the humeral shaft and bruising over the upper arm and back, for which her pare…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 4-year-old boy is brought to a Perth emergency department with a swollen, bruised left forearm. At triage his mother said he fell from a kitchen chair. When y…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 2-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her father after falling from a play structure onto grass. She is walking, playing and interactive,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are discharging a 5-week-old boy after an admission with bronchiolitis. His mother smokes ten cigarettes a day outdoors. She tells you she is so exhausted t…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A previously well 2-year-old boy has passed two large, dark red stools today. He has had no abdominal pain, has not drawn up his legs, has not vomited and has h…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 2-year-old boy weighing 13 kg is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after his mother found him beside her open bottle of iron tablets, with an ora…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A father telephones the emergency department. Twenty minutes ago he found his 20-month-old daughter with the back of the television remote prised open and one o…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A mother brings her 18-month-old son to the general practice for a routine check. Her own mother has just moved in and keeps her tablets in a weekly pill organi…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist