Medicine
519 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 32-year-old woman attends for the result of her first cervical screening test under the renewed National Cervical Screening Program. She is asymptomatic and h…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old woman in her first pregnancy presents at 36 weeks with a frontal headache and "flashing lights" for six hours. Her blood pressure was 11…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common
A 79-year-old man on apixaban for atrial fibrillation is brought in by his wife. Over three weeks he has become slower, sleeps much of the day, has twice lost t…
Neurology · Clinical rotations · common
A 66-year-old man with atrial fibrillation presents 40 minutes after the sight in his left eye "went out like a light" while reading; there was no pai…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
A 45-year-old man wakes to find the left side of his face drooping. When he tries to raise his eyebrows only the right side moves, and he cannot fully close his…
Neurology · Clinical rotations · common
A 41-year-old woman presents with a headache that began abruptly while she was lifting weights at the gym yesterday evening, reaching maximum intensity within s…
Neurology · Clinical rotations · common
A 54-year-old woman receiving adjuvant docetaxel and cyclophosphamide for breast cancer presents nine days after her second cycle with a temperature of 38.4 °C,…
Haematology and Oncology · Pre-internship · common
A 67-year-old man with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy presents with two weeks of mid-back pain that is worse lying flat and wakes him at night.…
Haematology and Oncology · Pre-internship · common
A 31-year-old woman presents with six months of fatigue, nausea and 7 kg of weight loss. She has been adding extra salt to everything and craves potato chips. F…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common