Paediatrics
111 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 10-year-old boy is seen in a paediatric outpatient clinic. Over six months he has become irritable, has stopped playing soccer, which he loved, and takes over…
Pre-internship · common
An 18-month-old boy is brought by his parents, who are alarmed that he bangs his head rhythmically against the cot rails for ten to fifteen minutes as he settle…
Clinical rotations · common
A term 9-month-old boy is brought to the child health nurse. Over the past six weeks he has begun to cry when his grandmother, whom he sees weekly, picks him up…
Clinical rotations · common
A 24-month-old boy attends for a developmental check. He runs, walks up stairs holding the rail and kicks a ball. He builds a tower of six blocks, turns the pag…
Clinical rotations · common
A 6-year-old boy is seen for a routine check. His mother says he has always been "solidly built", like his father. He is 1.18 m tall and weighs 30 kg, giving a…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old boy attends for a sports participation certificate. He mentions that his parents give him a glass of wine with Sunday dinner so that he learns to…
Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old boy attends the general practice with his father because of headaches on most school days for three months. His neurological examination, includin…
Pre-internship · common
A midwife makes a home visit to a 2-week-old girl. She was born at term, is exclusively breastfed and has regained her birth weight. Her mother is exhausted and…
Clinical rotations · common
A woman who is 19 weeks pregnant with her second child asks what she can do to protect the new baby from whooping cough. Her 2-year-old daughter is fully immuni…
Pre-internship · common
You are the intern on the postnatal ward. The newborn screening laboratory telephones about a 5-day-old girl: the immunoreactive trypsinogen was raised on the b…
Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to the general practice because he uses only about twenty single words and no two-word phrases. He passed his newborn hearing screen…
Pre-internship · common
A medical student writes a medication order on the chart of a 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg who has been admitted with an asthma exacerbation. The order reads:…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends the general practice with her mother because of four months of daily headaches. Her mother answers every question, describes the head…
Clinical rotations · common
You are the intern on the paediatric ward. A 2-year-old girl admitted with gastroenteritis needs a nasogastric tube for rehydration. Her parents arrived in Aust…
Pre-internship · common
A term newborn girl is examined on the postnatal ward. She lay in a breech position from 34 weeks and was delivered by caesarean section. With the baby relaxed…
Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old boy is referred to the paediatric clinic after a school nursing screen recorded a blood pressure of 132/84 mmHg, above the 95th centile for his ag…
Pre-internship · common
A girl born at 28 weeks gestation is brought to the child health nurse for a routine review. She is now 5 months old by the calendar and has been home from the…
Clinical rotations · common
A 5-month-old boy is brought to hospital with 2 days of nasal congestion, cough and reduced breastfeeds. He is alert but has subcostal recession and widespread…
Clinical rotations · common
A 19-day-old girl is reviewed for jaundice that has persisted since discharge from hospital. Her mother reports that the urine has stained the nappy dark and th…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old boy presents with fever, vomiting and severe pain in both legs. Over the preceding two hours, dark purple spots have appeared over his buttocks and…
Clinical rotations · common