Medicine
1,403 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 35-year-old woman at 31 weeks’ gestation has six weeks of low mood, guilt and early-morning waking. During the past week she has stopped eating, believes her…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common
A 27-year-old man with no previous psychiatric history is brought to hospital by his family after two weeks of little sleep, expansive business plans and increa…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common
A 38-year-old woman with bipolar disorder started haloperidol 10 days ago for a manic episode. She now reports that she cannot sit still, repeatedly walks aroun…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old man with recurrent major depression tells his general practitioner that he intends to take all his prescribed medicines after his partner leaves f…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common
A 32-year-old woman at 10 weeks’ gestation presents with four days of almost no sleep, excessive spending and increasingly intrusive plans to start several busi…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old man with schizophrenia is brought to the emergency department after threatening another patient. He is pacing, shouting and clenching his fists; h…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common
A 17-year-old girl presents six hours after a deliberate ingestion of tablets taken from the family bathroom cabinet. She complains of nausea, repeated vomiting…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 26-year-old backpacker is snorkelling off Port Douglas in far north Queensland in December when she feels a mild sting on her forearm, leaving only faint redn…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man in suburban Sydney felt a sharp pinprick on the back of his hand while moving pot plants stacked against the house. Over the next two hours he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional Victorian hospital 45 minutes after a suspected snakebite to the calf while walking through long grass. A pressure imm…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 19-year-old man presents six hours after an acute ingestion of an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets in a suicide attempt. He is alert, w…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 30-year-old Aboriginal man attends a regional clinic for an annual health assessment. He feels well, smokes ten cigarettes daily, drinks alcohol most weekends…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman who lives alone is found to have a 2.5 cm breast mass, and core biopsy shows invasive carcinoma. The surgeon has recommended wide local exc…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 47-year-old Aboriginal man from a regional town has type 2 diabetes and hypertension, for which metformin, perindopril and rosuvastatin are prescribed. At rev…
General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old schoolteacher presents with three weeks of cough. Her illness began with a runny nose and mild sore throat, after which she developed bouts of sev…
Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common