Medicine
82 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 42-year-old farmer attends because his wife insisted. She left him four months ago and he has been drinking a bottle of wine most nights. He has lost 6 kg, wa…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old girl has refused to walk or stand since waking this morning and screams when her right leg is moved. She had a cold last week. Her temperature is 3…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 4-month-old boy is brought in by his mother's partner with a swollen right thigh, which he says happened when the baby rolled off the couch this morning.…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old girl is brought to a rural general practice, two hours by road from the nearest hospital, with 12 hours of fever, vomiting and increasing drowsines…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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 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 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 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 5-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department because her left thigh is swollen and she cries when it is moved. Her father says she rolled off a cou…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after being carried out of a house fire. There is soot around his nostrils and on his…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 15-year-old girl swallowed twelve of her mother's ibuprofen tablets after a break-up and is now six hours post-ingestion. She is asymptomatic, her observation…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are the resident covering an after-hours paediatric telephone line. The mother of a two-year-old boy rings about his second day of gastroenteritis. He was r…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old inpatient was given 15 mg of oral morphine instead of the prescribed 1.5 mg one hour ago, because a decimal point on the drug chart was misread. He…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 5-year-old boy has had a clear runny nose and a dry night cough for four days. He is afebrile and eating normally, and his chest, throat and ears are normal.…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 15-year-old boy with Crohn disease attends a routine clinic review with his mother. He has lost 4 kg in three months and has missed a third of school days thi…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
The bone marrow result for a 4-year-old girl admitted with pallor and bruising has confirmed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. You are to be present while the cons…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 6-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis is admitted for his third pulmonary exacerbation this year. His mother tells the team she resigned from her job to manage…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 39-year-old woman at 12 weeks of her fourth pregnancy is told that her cell-free DNA screening test reports a high chance of trisomy 21. Her nuchal translucen…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common