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486 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 7-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his 19-year-old mother because of a cold. His weight has crossed from the 50th percentile at 4 month…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old boy attends with his mother. His body mass index for age is above the 99.7th percentile on his growth chart, having been on the 92nd percentile at…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy attends the general practice with his father because of headaches on most school days for three months. His neurological examination, includin…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A woman who is 19 weeks pregnant with her second child asks what she can do to protect the new baby from whooping cough. Her 2-year-old daughter is fully immuni…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 13-year-old boy who received a deceased-donor kidney transplant eighteen months ago attends the general practice with his mother. He takes tacrolimus, mycophe…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on the postnatal ward. The newborn screening laboratory telephones about a 5-day-old girl: the immunoreactive trypsinogen was raised on the b…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to the general practice because he uses only about twenty single words and no two-word phrases. He passed his newborn hearing screen…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are the resident in a paediatric outpatient clinic. A 15-year-old boy attends for review of his asthma, which is well controlled. At the start you explained…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy attends the renal clinic. He received a deceased-donor kidney transplant at age 9 and takes tacrolimus, mycophenolate and low-dose prednisolon…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 12-year-old boy had blood taken during a work-up for recurrent abdominal pain, which has since settled without treatment. He is well, is Tanner stage 3, and h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
You are asked to chart regular paracetamol for a 14-year-old boy on the first day after an open appendicectomy. He weighs 68 kg and is 174 cm tall. He has no li…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on the paediatric ward. A 2-year-old girl admitted with gastroenteritis needs a nasogastric tube for rehydration. Her parents arrived in Aust…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 4-month-old boy attends for his scheduled immunisations. He was born at term and is thriving. The right hemiscrotum is empty and underdeveloped. The right tes…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 10-day-old girl is reviewed before discharge from the special care nursery, where she was admitted for feeding support. She was born at 38 weeks in a frank br…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 8-year-old boy is referred to the paediatric clinic after a school nursing screen recorded a blood pressure of 132/84 mmHg, above the 95th centile for his ag…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are the intern on the postnatal ward. A healthy term boy was born two hours ago weighing 3400 g. After a full discussion of the risks, both parents decline…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old man who came to Australia from Somalia six years ago is reviewed by his general practitioner for a depressive episode. After eight weeks of sertra…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 71-year-old woman who migrated from Hong Kong 40 years ago is admitted to a psychiatric ward with a severe depressive episode. She speaks Cantonese and almost…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 52-year-old man born in Vietnam, who has had schizophrenia for 25 years, comes to an emergency department with six hours of epigastric pain. He speaks limited…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 38-year-old Aboriginal woman is on the caseload of a metropolitan community mental health team after her third admission this year for a depressive episode wi…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist