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824 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 24-year-old woman is referred because of mood swings since her late teens. Twice in two years she has had six-day spells of sleeping three hours a night, talk…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has recovered from his first episode of schizophrenia and has been well on aripiprazole for four months. He has moved back in with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a first episode of psychosis after eight weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices. He has never taken an antipsychotic. His bo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by police after being found shouting at parked cars. He is guarded, gives his name and little else, and…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 25-year-old man has taken risperidone 4 mg at night for six months for schizophrenia, and his voices and persecutory beliefs have gone. His mother says he now…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 23-year-old apprentice has had persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions continuously for three months. He has stopped attending work and rarel…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old woman, whose mother died six weeks ago, tells her general practitioner that she has three times seen and spoken with her mother in the family home…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by friends two hours after a party. He is frightened, is convinced the other guests were laughing at hi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man is seen by the consultation-liaison team. Over the past twelve months he has needed steadily more alcohol for the same effect, has twice tried…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted after a fall at home. She says she takes 'a sleeping tablet now and then' and drinks 'a small sherry before bed'. Her speech is…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman attends for a routine health check. She drinks four to five standard drinks on each of five evenings a week and has done so for three years.…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 47-year-old man completed inpatient alcohol withdrawal and has been abstinent for eight days. He wants medication to help him stay off alcohol and is attendin…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is on the second postoperative day after an elective right hemicolectomy. Overnight he became restless and drenched with sweat; this morning h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A general practitioner in a regional town is asked to run a drug and alcohol education session at the local secondary school. Media coverage over the past year…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 72-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam forty years ago is brought to a memory clinic by her son, who describes two years of gradually worsening…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 78-year-old woman is brought by her daughter because over eighteen months she has become slower at finding words and repeatedly mislays her keys. She still dr…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man is brought by his wife because for the past year he has described the small children who come into the lounge room most afternoons; he can say…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist