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A 7-year-old girl's teacher reports that her schoolwork has fallen away this year and that she "drifts off". Her mother says that twenty or thirty times a day s…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 8-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who describes fourteen months of daily arguing with adults, deliberate refusal to follow instructions, blaming hi…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy has primary nocturnal enuresis with no daytime urinary symptoms, normal growth, normal blood pressure and a normal urinalysis. An eight-week al…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy attends with his mother after his childcare educator commented that he "plays on his own". He walks and runs well, uses about sixty single word…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy is brought by his parents because he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and he has gro…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy is brought by his mother, who has completed a standardised parent rating scale scoring highly for inattention and hyperactivity. She says he ca…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 18-month-old boy is brought back to the general practice by his father. At his 15-month check he was walking, waving goodbye, using eight words and handing h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice. Her weight has fallen from the 50th centile to below the 0.4th centile over three months; her length…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy is seen for a routine check. His mother says he has always been "solidly built", like his father. He is 1.18 m tall and weighs 30 kg, giving a…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-month-old girl is referred because her head circumference has fallen from the 25th percentile at birth to below the 3rd percentile. She was born at 39 weeks…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche
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 20-month-old boy attends for his 18-month health check in an outer suburb of Perth. He walks confidently, climbs onto the kitchen bench and opens cupboards. T…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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 17-year-old girl attends a general practice for a pre-employment medical. The Australian Immunisation Register shows she received one dose of nine-valent huma…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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 term newborn girl is examined on the postnatal ward. She lay in a breech position from 34 weeks and was delivered by caesarean section. With the baby relaxed…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A girl born at 28 weeks gestation is brought to the child health nurse for a routine review. She is now 5 months old by the calendar and has been home from the…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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 metropolitan mental health service is examining why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inpatients leave the ward against medical advice far more often than…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old Aboriginal man is brought to a regional hospital by his aunt six weeks after his grandfather's funeral. At night he hears his grandfather calling…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist