Paediatrics
152 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 3-year-old girl has refused to walk or stand since waking this morning and screams when her right leg is moved. She had a cold last week. Her temperature is 3…
Pre-internship · common
A 5-week-old boy, first child, has had one week of vomiting that occurs within 30 minutes of every feed and is now forceful, landing well away from him. The vom…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-month-old boy is brought in by his mother's partner with a swollen right thigh, which he says happened when the baby rolled off the couch this morning.…
Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old girl is brought to a rural general practice, two hours by road from the nearest hospital, with 12 hours of fever, vomiting and increasing drowsines…
Pre-internship · common
An 8-month-old boy is brought in because his 5-year-old cousin, who visited the house two days ago and played with him for an afternoon, has today been diagnose…
Pre-internship · niche
A 9-year-old girl weighing 30 kg presents in diabetic ketoacidosis as the first presentation of type 1 diabetes: pH 7.02, glucose 34 mmol/L, bicarbonate 6 mmol/…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-day-old boy, born at term and discharged well at 24 hours, is brought back because he has become grey, floppy and uninterested in feeding over six hours. Hi…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department because her left thigh is swollen and she cries when it is moved. Her father says she rolled off a cou…
Pre-internship · common
You are the intern attached to a regional public health unit. Its annual child health profile for a town of 4,000 people reports: two-dose measles-mumps-rubella…
Pre-internship · niche
You are the intern in a regional hospital's paediatric outpatient clinic. A 3-year-old Aboriginal boy has bilateral middle ear effusions and a 35 dB conductive…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A coastal local government area has recorded four drownings of children under five years of age in five years, every one of them in a backyard swimming pool at…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. Over three weeks you admit four toddlers from the same remote community with extensive impetigo, and a fifth chil…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a junior doctor at a regional Western Australian hospital. Hospital data show that Aboriginal children in the district are admitted with skin infections…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a general practice registrar in Perth. A 3-year-old boy attends with his mother for a routine pre-kindergarten review recorded in his personal health re…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy attends a Perth outpatient clinic. She needs continuing physiotherapy and speech pathology to preserve fu…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. A 6-year-old girl admitted with pneumonia tells you that a family friend does rude things to her when he babysits…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a resident in a Perth children's hospital and have had concerns about five children this week. Each concern is soundly based, you believe each on reason…
Pre-internship · niche
A 9-year-old girl is brought to a Perth emergency department by her mother at 9 pm. At triage she told the nurse that her mother's partner puts his hands inside…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern caring for a 3-year-old boy admitted with bronchiolitis at a Perth hospital. On the second night his mother tells you that his father drinks…
Pre-internship · middle twist
At 2 am you are the intern who admits a 2-year-old girl with a spiral fracture of the humeral shaft and bruising over the upper arm and back, for which her pare…
Pre-internship · middle twist