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20 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage 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 10-day-old boy born at term is brought in with two days of poor feeding, vomiting and lethargy, and today is floppy and grey. He is afebrile, with a heart rat…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

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

A 7-year-old girl returns from a camping trip in far north Queensland with five days of fever, headache and severe myalgia. There is a 1 cm black-crusted ulcer…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 13-year-old girl attends a general practice in the first week of September. Every year from the first week of October until Christmas she has a blocked, itchy…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 2.5 kg to a woman with epilepsy who took a single antiepileptic drug throughout the pregnancy. He has a broad flat nasal brid…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 7-day-old breastfed girl is admitted with a two-day history of poor feeding and vomiting. She is deeply jaundiced, lethargic and hypothermic, with a liver edg…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 14-year-old boy is brought in by both parents, who are worried that he is the shortest in his year and has not started to change. His height has followed the…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 7-year-old boy is referred because he is disruptive at school, cannot wait his turn, and is two years behind in reading. He has lived with his grandmother sin…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 4-month-old girl is referred because her head circumference has fallen from the 25th percentile at birth to below the 3rd percentile. She was born at 39 weeks…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 4-year-old boy attends for a preschool health check. His parents want to move him into the booster seat his 7-year-old sister has outgrown, because he says hi…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 3-year-old child is admitted with invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b infection. The child lives with both parents and a 20-month-old sibling who has recei…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · niche

A 54-year-old woman is treated for symptomatic hyponatraemia that has probably been present for several days. Her initial serum sodium concentration was 108 mmo…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · niche

A 19-year-old man is brought to hospital 90 minutes after swallowing approximately 60 g of paracetamol. He is drowsy, sweaty and vomiting. Arterial blood gas an…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 26-year-old man with schizophrenia stopped taking lorazepam prescribed for recurrent episodes of immobility and mutism. Two days later he is mute, alternates…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · niche

A 72-year-old man with Parkinson disease has developed distressing visual experiences over the past month. His wife reports that he sets places at the table for…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · niche

A 49-year-old woman with a recently diagnosed adrenal pheochromocytoma requires drainage of a painful dental abscess before definitive tumour surgery. Her blood…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 29-year-old man presents with palpitations and light-headedness. His pulse is irregular at 190 beats per minute and the blood pressure is 126/74 mmHg. The ECG…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · niche

A 58-year-old farmer near Dubbo, New South Wales, felt a sharp scratch on his ankle while moving hay bales and briefly lost consciousness about ten minutes late…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 29-year-old man has progressive bone pain, proximal weakness and two atraumatic metatarsal fractures. Serum phosphate is 0.44 mmol/L (0.80–1.50), calcium is 2…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · niche

A 31-year-old woman attends for routine care and has never had cervical screening. She has no abnormal bleeding, pelvic pain or visible cervical lesion. A self-…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · niche