Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 16-year-old boy has had a moderate depressive episode for five months. He has completed eight sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy with a psychologist an…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…
Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old girl is brought by her father because her marks have fallen from the top band to failing over two school terms. She has given up netball, which sh…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department by his mother, who found messages in which he described wanting to die. Seen alone, he says he h…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You have been asked to speak about staying safe to Year 11 and 12 students at a metropolitan Western Australian high school. So that the talk targets the bigges…
Clinical rotations · common
A 17-year-old girl asks for help to stop vaping. She has used a disposable device every day for two years, now wakes at night to use it, and has failed three at…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl in Year 10 at a Perth high school attends with her mother for treatment of acne. You spend part of the consultation with her alone and explai…
Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl attends with three months of worsening acne. There are deep tender lumps on both cheeks and along the jaw, two of them discharging, and four…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 13-year-old girl attends with her mother for a check before she starts high school sport. Her mother's cousin wore a spinal brace as a teenager, and she asks…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl attends a Perth general practice for a repeat asthma prescription. She spent a term of Year 7 overseas and her immunisation record shows no d…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl has never had a period. Her breasts and pubic hair have been fully developed and unchanged for about a year, and she has grown 1 cm in the pa…
Pre-internship · niche
A 14-year-old boy is brought in by both parents, who are worried that he is the shortest in his year and has not started to change. His height has followed the…
Clinical rotations · niche
A 7-year-old girl is brought to a general practice because over six months she has developed underarm odour and a few dark hairs in the pubic area. Her mother i…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl attends a Perth general practice alone and asks for emergency contraception after a condom broke last night. She tells you she has been seein…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl attends a Perth general practice on her own and asks for the contraceptive pill. She has been with her 17-year-old boyfriend for a year and t…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old boy who lives on a wheat farm 300 km from Perth is brought in by his mother after she found a note in his room. He tells you that for the past mon…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-month-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department with a scald to his left forearm and hand. He had been sitting in the bath and turned the hot t…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection is admitted to a paediatric ward. Over an hour his oxygen saturation falls to 88 per cent on 6 L…
Pre-internship · common
A 9-week-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department with three weeks of cough. Her mother describes bouts of coughing that leave her red in the face…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl asks you to sign a clearance form for state-level netball. Twice this year she has collapsed without warning, once in the third quarter of a…
Pre-internship · common