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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 45-year-old man attends a health assessment. He has a sedentary occupation, a waist circumference of 108 cm and a first-degree relative with type 2 diabetes,…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 68-year-old man undergoes an abdominal ultrasound arranged during assessment of nonspecific back discomfort. He has no abdominal pain, vascular symptoms or kn…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 47-year-old woman with no personal or family history of breast cancer asks whether to continue mammographic screening. She has no breast lump or nipple change…

General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 61-year-old man asks about bowel cancer screening. He has no change in bowel habit, rectal bleeding or iron deficiency, and his mother was diagnosed with bowe…

Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman attends her general practitioner for routine preventive care. She has no symptoms, has never had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, and her…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 63-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes accidentally injects 60 units of insulin glargine instead of her usual 20 units. She becomes confused with a capillary…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 28-year-old man with type 1 diabetes uses a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion. He develops nausea after the pump gives an occlusion alarm; his blood gl…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes is being treated for diabetic ketoacidosis with intravenous insulin and 0.9% sodium chloride. Four hours later, her blo…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common

A 67-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes is admitted with community-acquired pneumonia and is not eating. She normally injects insulin glargine 24 units at nigh…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man with type 1 diabetes presents with vomiting and abdominal pain. His blood glucose concentration is 28 mmol/L, blood ketones are 6.4 mmol/L and…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing dyspnoea and drowsiness during a respiratory infection. On room a…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old man with asthma is treated for an acute exacerbation with repeated nebulised salbutamol, ipratropium and corticosteroids. Initially he was agitate…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 68-year-old man with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing breathlessness and purulent sputum. He has received controlled oxyg…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old man presents two days after running out of prescribed oxycodone, which he had been taking in increasing amounts for a year. He is yawning, restles…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman presents with anxiety, poor sleep, nausea and a sense that people are watching her. She stopped taking alprazolam 72 hours ago after using 6…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old man with longstanding alcohol dependence has eaten little during two weeks of vomiting. He is inattentive, walks with a broad-based gait and repea…

General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 63-year-old man with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma has persistent thirst, vomiting and confusion. After intravenous saline, his serum calcium concentrati…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 72-year-old man with diabetic kidney disease takes perindopril and spironolactone. He has a serum potassium concentration of 6.2 mmol/L (3.5–5.2), chloride 11…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 29-year-old man presents after completing an unusually strenuous cross-country event with severe thigh pain and dark urine. His creatinine concentration is 28…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · common