Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 15-year-old boy attends for clearance to play first-grade school football. He has never had chest pain or blackouts and keeps up with the fittest boys at trai…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is in the emergency department of a Perth hospital with a forearm fracture after falling from a trampoline. While you are applying the backslab…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl is brought to a Perth general practice by her mother and her mother's partner because of six months of intermittent abdominal pain. She has mi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 5-year-old boy with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome finished a six-week course of oral prednisolone 2 mg/kg daily yesterday. He is in remission, is well…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-month-old girl is brought to a general practice in Perth for her scheduled immunisations, which include measles-mumps-rubella and meningococcal ACWY vaccin…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy who received a kidney transplant two years ago attends the renal clinic. He takes tacrolimus and mycophenolate and his graft function is stabl…
Pre-internship · niche
A 16-week-old girl is brought to a general practice by her family, who arrived in Australia three weeks ago. She has no immunisation records and her parents are…
Pre-internship · niche
A 4-month-old Aboriginal boy attends an Aboriginal Medical Service for his scheduled immunisations. He was born at term, is well, and received all of his 6-week…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents because he has been unsettled overnight. He is well grown, afebrile and feeding normally…
Pre-internship · middle twist
An 18-month-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He walked at 11 months, now runs everywhere, climbs onto the kitchen bench and has lea…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl attends a general practice with her father for a pre-kindergarten check. Her weight is above the 97th centile and her body mass index has been…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-month-old girl attends for a routine check. She is well and walking, and her weight and length are on the 75th centile. Her parents want to stop buying inf…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-month-old boy is brought to a general practice for his immunisations. He has just started pureed vegetables and rice cereal. His 4-year-old sister has a pea…
Clinical rotations · common
A 3-week-old girl is brought to a general practice by her mother, who is exhausted and believes her milk supply is failing. The baby was born at term weighing 3…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He was born at term weighing 3.2 kg and now weighs 4.0 kg. He is formula fed, taking 90 m…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother, who is worried that she has stopped eating properly and has lost weight. Her mother says she has…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old girl is brought to a general practice because she is pale and always tired. Her weight has drifted from the 50th to the 10th centile over the past…
Clinical rotations · common
A 9-year-old boy is referred to a paediatric clinic because his weight is above the 97th centile. Both parents are overweight, he spends most of his free time o…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy weighing 92 kg attends the emergency department with six weeks of left knee ache and a limp. Radiographs of the pelvis show a mild slip of the…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department with six weeks of ache in the left knee, worse after football and now making him limp. There has been n…
Clinical rotations · middle twist