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823 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

Practise theseOne at a time, in a random order, with the explanation after each.

A 29-year-old woman is referred with 'panic attacks': five months of episodes of pounding heartbeat, shaking hands and feeling unbearably hot, several of which…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 46-year-old teacher completes a brief consumption-based alcohol screen at a routine health check. She reports two 100 mL glasses of wine on each of Monday to…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old man who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 40 is brought to the general practice by his daughter. Over two years he has become repetitiv…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia attends the clinic for review. Grinning broadly and giggling, he tells the registrar that his mother died last month and th…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A medical student takes an alcohol history from a 55-year-old man in a general practice clinic. In a rapid run, without pausing, she asks: 'You don't drink much…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 38-year-old woman is describing the end of her marriage at an outpatient appointment. She says she is fine about it now, honestly, while her voice shakes and…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 45-year-old man admitted involuntarily believes that a government agency has been recording him. He sits with his back to the wall, keeps the door in view, an…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old restaurateur is brought by her husband with three weeks of elevated mood, sleeping two hours a night and plans to buy a second premises. She has n…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 81-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 45 is referred because her family say she forgets appointments and repeats herself. She le…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A 67-year-old Yolŋu man from a remote community in north-east Arnhem Land is admitted to a Darwin hospital for assessment of low mood and weight loss. His first…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman is referred three months after her husband died. Two or three times a week, while she is standing at the kitchen sink, she hears him call he…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man attends his general practice for review of his mood. Asked how he has been sleeping, he begins with the layout of his bedroom, moves on to the…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman has had a gritty, watering right eye since walking home through a dust storm yesterday afternoon. It hurts most when she blinks. She has nev…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old boy is screened at his preschool in Sydney under the state vision screening programme. Using a matching-letter chart he scores 6/9 in the left eye…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old man with type 2 diabetes of 14 years attends his general practice for review. His most recent glycated haemoglobin is 9.4% (79 mmol/mol) and his b…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 71-year-old man with long-standing poorly controlled hypertension wakes to find the vision in his left eye blurred. There is no pain, no flashing lights and n…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old woman has twice walked into the left-hand door frame this month and has scraped the driver's side of her car. She has noticed nothing wrong with h…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old Aboriginal man attends his general practice in a regional town for a diabetes review. Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed four years ago. His HbA1c is 5…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 52-year-old woman wakes with a drooping right eyelid and double vision. She has had a boring pain behind the right eye since yesterday. When the lid is lifted…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist