Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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 7-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his 19-year-old mother because of a cold. His weight has crossed from the 50th percentile at 4 month…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old boy attends with his mother. His body mass index for age is above the 99.7th percentile on his growth chart, having been on the 92nd percentile at…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who has been told at the child health clinic that he is under the line and is frightened that something is being mis…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-month-old girl is referred because her head circumference has fallen from the 25th percentile at birth to below the 3rd percentile. She was born at 39 weeks…
Clinical rotations · niche
A 7-year-old girl is brought because her school photograph shows her much shorter than her friends. At 4 years of age her height and weight were both on the 50t…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy is brought by his mother because he is the shortest in his class and is being teased. His height has followed a line just below the 3rd percen…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who has been told at day care that his head looks big and who asks whether he needs a scan. His head circumference h…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 6-month-old boy attends with his mother for a routine check. He is exclusively breastfed, thriving and well, and has had no solid food. He has had moderate ec…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-year-old boy attends for a preschool health check. His parents want to move him into the booster seat his 7-year-old sister has outgrown, because he says hi…
Clinical rotations · niche
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
A 13-year-old boy who received a deceased-donor kidney transplant eighteen months ago attends the general practice with his mother. He takes tacrolimus, mycophe…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A boy born at 30 weeks gestation attends the child health nurse at 9 months of age. His mother has completed the Ages and Stages Questionnaire using his date of…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 4-year-old girl attends her preschool vision screening in the year before she starts school. She is well, has no complaints, and her parents have noticed noth…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the resident in a paediatric outpatient clinic. A 15-year-old boy attends for review of his asthma, which is well controlled. At the start you explained…
Pre-internship · middle twist