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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The trauma primary survey and the acute surgical presentations that turn on recognising a time-critical diagnosis before imaging confirms it.
40 total questions
Card #1
The trauma primary survey
Card #2
Glasgow Coma Scale — components and range
Card #3
Tension pneumothorax
1. What is the correct order of the trauma primary survey?
2. What is the lowest possible Glasgow Coma Scale score?
3. A trauma patient has unilateral absent breath sounds, hyperresonance, hypotension and distended neck veins. The immediate management is:
1. The trauma primary survey begins with the ___ , assessed with cervical spine protection.
Hint: the A of ABCDE
2. The Glasgow Coma Scale runs from a minimum of ___ to a maximum of 15.
Hint: one point on each of its three components
3. Tension pneumothorax is a clinical diagnosis and is treated by immediate ___ of the affected side.
Hint: let the trapped air out
