Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 13-year-old girl attends a general practice in the first week of September. Every year from the first week of October until Christmas she has a blocked, itchy…
Clinical rotations · niche
An 8-month-old boy is brought to a general practice with six weeks of dry, pink, scaly patches on both cheeks and around the mouth. He rubs at them and wakes se…
Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice for a repeat of her salbutamol inhaler. She has had asthma since childhood. She uses salbutamol two or three times…
Pre-internship · middle twist
The bone marrow result for a 4-year-old girl admitted with pallor and bruising has confirmed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. You are to be present while the cons…
Pre-internship · common
A 5-year-old boy with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy is reviewed in a community clinic. His mother says every meal now takes 45 minutes, that he coughs and…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl from a remote community has been admitted to a tertiary hospital with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. English is the family's fir…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis is admitted for his third pulmonary exacerbation this year. His mother tells the team she resigned from her job to manage…
Pre-internship · common
A 15-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes since the age of nine attends the clinic with her father. Her glycated haemoglobin has risen steadily over 12 months. He…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has had atopic dermatitis since infancy. His skin is currently red, thickened and excoriated across both antecubital and popliteal fossae and h…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…
Pre-internship · niche
A 4-year-old girl has had bruises on her shins and trunk for three weeks. Her mother says she has become pale, tires on the walk to kindergarten and asks to be…
Clinical rotations · common
A 16-month-old girl who arrived in Australia from overseas six months ago is brought to a general practice because she is not gaining weight. Her weight has fal…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl has had six hours of episodes in which she suddenly screams, draws her knees up and stiffens for a minute or two, then lies pale and floppy u…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy is brought to a general practice with three weeks of aching in his left knee and a limp his football coach has noticed. He weighs 82 kg. There…
Clinical rotations · common
A 22-day-old boy born at term is brought to a rural emergency department because he felt hot. His rectal temperature is 38.4 degrees Celsius. He has fed normall…
Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 3 am with two days of runny nose and a harsh barking cough. Forty minutes ago he was given dex…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 10-week-old girl is brought to the emergency department by both parents with a bruise on the left cheek and a smaller one over the left ear. Her father says h…
Pre-internship · middle twist
An 18-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with two days of fever and irritability. She sits quietly on her mother's knee watching you, and sta…
Clinical rotations · common
A 5-month-old ex-term boy is on day four of bronchiolitis. Over the past 24 hours he has taken about 40 per cent of his usual milk and had two wet nappies. Resp…
Pre-internship · middle twist