Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 3-year-old girl has had fever and cough for two days. She is alert, sitting up and drinking, and her mother has a car and lives ten minutes from the hospital.…
Clinical rotations · common
A 14-month-old girl has been crying, pulling at both ears and febrile for a day. She has had paracetamol, is drinking normally and is not vomiting. Temperature…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old boy has had a runny nose for three days and is now coughing, wheezing and breathing fast. This is his first such illness. Respiratory rate is 58 p…
Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old boy brought in at 2 am has a harsh barking cough and a hoarse cry. His general practitioner gave him prednisolone 1 mg/kg nine hours ago and he set…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy has had a fever above 39 degrees Celsius for six days despite regular paracetamol. Both eyes are red without any discharge or crusting. His lip…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl who arrived from Ethiopia six months ago is screened after her grandmother, who shares the house, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy whose parents were born in Vietnam has a blood test before starting childcare. He drinks about 700 mL of cow milk a day and refuses meat. He is…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-day-old term girl, home since day two and feeding well until this morning, is brought in mottled and lethargic. Heart rate is 186 per minute, respiratory ra…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl is brought in after her mother felt a lump in her tummy while bathing her. She is thriving, plays normally, and has had no fever, weight loss…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl has refused to walk since yesterday and cries whenever her right leg is moved. Temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius and heart rate 148 per minu…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-day-old term boy, discharged home yesterday and feeding well until this morning, has vomited four times in six hours. The vomit is dark green. He passed mec…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are drawing a three-generation pedigree for a 7-year-old girl referred with recurrent headaches. Her mother mentions that the child's father, from whom she…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy has two years of worsening exercise intolerance, drooping eyelids and newly fitted hearing aids. You take a family history to draw a pedigree.…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who has biopsy-proven coeliac disease, as does his older sister. He is well, on the 50th centile for height and we…
Pre-internship · niche
A 3-week-old boy has just had a pyloromyotomy for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. He is his parents' first child and neither parent nor any grandparent…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A woman has an amniocentesis at 17 weeks after a cell-free DNA test reported a high chance of trisomy 21. She is booked to fly interstate in three days for a fa…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A couple in their early thirties have had three consecutive first-trimester miscarriages and have no living children. Both are well and neither has a family his…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 39-year-old woman at 12 weeks of her fourth pregnancy is told that her cell-free DNA screening test reports a high chance of trisomy 21. Her nuchal translucen…
Pre-internship · common
A couple attend at nine weeks of a planned pregnancy. Their first child has cystic fibrosis, and both parents are known carriers of the same CFTR variant. They…
Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old woman who has had type 1 diabetes since she was twelve asks how to prepare for a pregnancy she hopes to start in about six months. Her most recent…
Pre-internship · middle twist