Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 3-year-old girl has a red bulging left tympanic membrane. She is afebrile, has had no ear discharge, and is playing in the waiting room. She is not Aboriginal…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl weighing 20 kg has acute otitis media and is lethargic and pale, so antibiotics are indicated. You have decided on amoxicillin 15 mg/kg, to a…
Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old boy weighing 18 kg has a bulging left tympanic membrane with purulent discharge in the ear canal, and antibiotic treatment is indicated. He is at l…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy has a forearm fracture and needs regular oral paracetamol in the emergency department. He weighs 52 kg; the 50th centile weight for his age and…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old boy weighing 42 kg has multiple crusted impetigo lesions on both legs and needs oral antibiotic therapy. The recommended regimen is flucloxacillin…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl admitted with a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness has a nasogastric tube in situ and cannot swallow tablets. One of her regular medicin…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the evening intern on a paediatric ward. The consultant asks you to chart an oral medicine you have not prescribed before for a 3-year-old girl weighing…
Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old inpatient was given 15 mg of oral morphine instead of the prescribed 1.5 mg one hour ago, because a decimal point on the drug chart was misread. He…
Pre-internship · common
A 12-month audit of a paediatric ward identifies four prescriptions in which a weight-based dose was written ten times higher than intended; two of these reache…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-month-old girl with no known epilepsy is brought in convulsing. The seizure began 14 minutes ago; paramedics gave buccal midazolam at six minutes and a fur…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 20-month-old boy has had two days of fever and disturbed sleep, waking crying and pulling at both ears. His temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius. Both tympanic…
Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old boy who had a right tympanostomy tube inserted last year has a two-week history of an itchy, discharging right ear after swimming lessons. He has…
Pre-internship · niche
A 5-month-old boy born at term has had a runny nose for three days and is now feeding poorly. His temperature is 37.8 degrees Celsius and respiratory rate 56, w…
Clinical rotations · common
A 5-year-old boy has had a clear runny nose and a dry night cough for four days. He is afebrile and eating normally, and his chest, throat and ears are normal.…
Pre-internship · common
A 7-year-old girl returns from a camping trip in far north Queensland with five days of fever, headache and severe myalgia. There is a 1 cm black-crusted ulcer…
Clinical rotations · niche
A woman telephones the practice about her 3-week-old, who was born at term and is thriving on exclusive breastfeeding. Yesterday another doctor started her on a…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old woman weighing 60 kg restarts sertraline 100 mg daily for recurrent depression. She is exclusively breastfeeding a healthy, thriving 4-month-old b…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old boy with Crohn disease attends a routine clinic review with his mother. He has lost 4 kg in three months and has missed a third of school days thi…
Pre-internship · common
A 7-year-old boy has had atopic dermatitis since infancy. Over two years his height has fallen from the 50th to the 10th centile, with weight falling in paralle…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl is referred because her teacher has noticed her stopping mid-sentence and staring for a few seconds, then carrying on as though nothing had ha…
Clinical rotations · middle twist