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486 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 74-year-old man with type 2 diabetes presents with several days of lethargy and increasing confusion. His blood glucose concentration is 42 mmol/L, calculated…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 52-year-old man with alcohol dependence is brought to the emergency department after being found confused at home. He has had several days of vomiting and is…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 79-year-old man has fallen three times in two months, usually when walking to the toilet at night. He has slowed reactions and feels unsteady for several hour…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Pre-internship · common
A 20-year-old university student with bipolar disorder is admitted voluntarily during a manic episode. She has capacity and agrees that her sister may be told t…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 56-year-old man with severe depression has decision-making capacity and agrees that electroconvulsive therapy may be appropriate. Before signing consent, he a…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old man with major depression tells his general practitioner that he has thought about dying and has imagined taking an overdose. He has no tablets at…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 42-year-old woman with recurrent bipolar disorder has made a written advance statement saying that she would want lithium during a future manic relapse. She i…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes refuses her evening insulin after becoming convinced that the injections are being used to poison her. She can repeat t…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old woman is reviewed 18 hours after an emergency caesarean section complicated by a 1.6 L postpartum haemorrhage. The bleeding has been controlled fo…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common
A woman develops ongoing haemorrhage during an emergency caesarean section for uterine atony. After 3 units of red blood cells and 2 units of fresh frozen plasm…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old man with recurrent major depression tells his general practitioner that he intends to take all his prescribed medicines after his partner leaves f…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common
A 29-year-old man with schizophrenia is brought to the emergency department after threatening another patient. He is pacing, shouting and clenching his fists; h…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Pre-internship · common
A 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 19-year-old man presents six hours after an acute ingestion of an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets in a suicide attempt. He is alert, w…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman who lives alone is found to have a 2.5 cm breast mass, and core biopsy shows invasive carcinoma. The surgeon has recommended wide local exc…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 24-year-old man presents with four days of fever, a runny nose, red watery eyes and a dry cough, ten days after returning from Bali. This morning a blotchy re…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 79-year-old retired farmer was diagnosed with Alzheimer disease eight months ago. At that time you advised him and his family that he should stop driving, and…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · middle twist