Clinical sciences revision for the AMC MCQ examination, written for international medical graduates working towards AHPRA registration in Australia. Covers adult internal medicine, surgery and trauma, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, and population and Indigenous health in the Australian context.
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Core medical presentations, the investigations that separate them and the patterns of biochemistry an examiner expects you to read at a glance.
40 total questions
Card #1
Acute coronary syndrome — the three diagnoses
Card #2
Type 1 versus type 2 respiratory failure
Card #3
The anion gap
1. A 58-year-old woman has pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness. She is haemodynamically stable, has a high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism, and normal renal function. Which investigation is most appropriate?
2. Which arterial blood gas pattern defines type 2 respiratory failure?
3. The earliest ECG change typically seen in hyperkalaemia is:
1. Type 2 respiratory failure is hypoxaemia accompanied by a raised ___ , reflecting alveolar hypoventilation.
Hint: the gas that accumulates when ventilation fails
2. The anion gap is calculated as sodium minus the sum of chloride and ___ .
Hint: the measured buffer anion
3. In primary adrenal insufficiency the sodium is low and the potassium is ___ .
Hint: the opposite of low
