Psych · MEQs / SAQs

MEQs / SAQs

296 units across 203 domains — Modified-essay (MEQ) and short-answer stems with full-mark model answers.

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FRANZCP-style MEQ on AUD nosology, CIWA-Ar, benzodiazepine detox, Caine/Wernicke thiamine, naltrexone/acamprosate/disulfiram, psychosocial package.

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Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens — CIWA, seizures, DT, thiamine (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on alcohol withdrawal timeline, CIWA-Ar/PAWSS, benzodiazepine protocols, DT risk, Caine/Wernicke thiamine, disposition.

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Alcohol-related brain injury and Korsakoff — Wernicke emergency to long-term care (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on ARBI spectrum, Caine/Wernicke, parenteral thiamine EFNS vs UK high-dose teaching, MRI, Korsakoff neuropsychology, long-term ARBD care.

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FRANZCP-style MEQ on ASD criteria, differentials, early intervention evidence, irritability pharmacotherapy with monitoring, and transition/capacity framing.

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Language and communication disorders — DLD, SPCD and SLT-first care (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style modified essay on language vs speech vs pragmatics, DLD/CATALISE, SLT evidence, Lidcombe, comorbidity and differentials.

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Domain

Child and adolescent psychiatry — eating disorders

Adolescent anorexia nervosa — medical risk, FBT and refeeding (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on adolescent AN: criteria, medical risk, refeeding, FBT, fluoxetine boundaries, capacity. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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Intellectual disability psychiatry — neurodevelopmental dual diagnosis

Autism and ID dual diagnosis — assessment to behaviour and epilepsy (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on autism–ID dual diagnosis: relative developmental rule, AAC, epilepsy, PBS, and irritability pharmacotherapy contrasted with Tyrer ID aggression RCT.

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FRANZCP-style MEQ on epilepsy in intellectual disability: McGrother epidemiology, peri-ictal formulation, Kerr-aligned joint care, seizure-aware psychotropics, SUDEP counselling.

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Climate, heat and eco-distress in a community service (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style modified essay integrating lithium and psychotropic risk in heat, distinguishing eco-distress from disorder in an adolescent after bushfire, heatwave service preparation, and the long-term disaster trajectory evidence. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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General adult psychiatry — psychotic disorders

Delusional disorder — diagnosis, risk and management (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on delusional disorder with mixed persecutory and jealous themes: criteria, differentials, Othello risk, engagement, antipsychotic plan, Cochrane evidence honesty.

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First-episode schizophrenia — assessment and initial management (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style modified essay on first-episode psychosis: risk and medical exclusion, differential diagnosis, antipsychotic initiation with monitoring, early intervention evidence, and the clozapine pathway for treatment resistance. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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Frontotemporal dementia — assessment and management (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on bvFTD: Rascovsky features, psychiatric misdiagnosis trap, gene triad, C9orf72–ALS overlap, capacity/risk, non-drug care, SSRI/trazodone symptomatic options, AChEI avoidance, antipsychotic caution.

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Specialty psychiatry — gender and sexuality

Gender dysphoria — assessment, risk, and affirming pathway (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style modified essay on adolescent gender dysphoria: differential, risk, autism interface, conversion harms, capacity, and stepped affirming care. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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Late-life bipolar disorder — assessment and management (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on late-life bipolar: EOBD continuation, lithium toxicity risk with NSAID/thiazide, GERI-BD-informed mania treatment, suicide lethality/means, ISBD lithium monitoring. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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Major depressive disorder — assessment and stepped management (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style modified essay on moderate-severe recurrent MDD: risk and medical exclusion, differential including bipolar and alcohol, first-line pharmacotherapy with monitoring, psychotherapy, STAR*D sequential logic, and ECT thresholds. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

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Melancholic vs atypical features — diagnosis and treatment (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ contrasting melancholic and atypical feature specifiers: criteria hinge, differentials, ECT for severe melancholia, MAOI historical evidence and safety, pitfalls.

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Psychotic depression — acute management and evidence (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ on psychotic depression: diagnosis, differentials, suicide risk, combination AD+AP (STOP-PD), ECT thresholds, STOP-PD II continuation.

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Seasonal and atypical depression — assessment and management (MEQ)

Paediatric psychopharmacology — SSRI, ADHD and antipsychotic safety (MEQ)

FRANZCP-style MEQ integrating SSRI black-box consent, fluoxetine dosing, ADHD stimulant monitoring, and youth antipsychotic metabolic safety with landmark trial literacy.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry — abnormal illness behaviour

Abnormal illness behaviour and the sick role — C-L MEQ

Emergency psychiatry — absconding and missing patients

Absconding from acute ward with suicide risk (MEQ)

Emergency psychiatry

Acute agitation and rapid tranquillisation ladder (MEQ)

Acute agitation and toxidrome emergency — assessment and management (MEQ)

Acute behavioural disturbance and contested excited delirium (MEQ)

Deliberate self-poisoning with mixed psychotropics (MEQ)

Lithium toxicity — acute-on-chronic emergency (MEQ)

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome diagnosis and management (MEQ)

Serotonin toxicity recognition and management (MEQ)

Addiction psychiatry

Addiction in older adults — late-onset alcohol and long-term benzodiazepine (MEQ)

Alcohol use disorder — detox, Wernicke, and relapse prevention (MEQ)

Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens — CIWA, seizures, DT, thiamine (MEQ)

Alcohol-related brain injury and Korsakoff — Wernicke emergency to long-term care (MEQ)

Anti-craving pharmacotherapy — agent selection, COMBINE, and safety (MEQ)

Benzodiazepine dependence — structured taper after withdrawal seizure (MEQ)

Child and adolescent psychiatry — neurodevelopmental

ADHD across the lifespan — assessment and multimodal management (MEQ)

Autism spectrum disorder — assessment to irritability management (MEQ)

Language and communication disorders — DLD, SPCD and SLT-first care (MEQ)

General adult psychiatry — trauma and stressor-related

Adjustment disorders — diagnosis, risk and stepped care (MEQ)

Grief and prolonged grief disorder — criteria, differential and CGT plan (MEQ)

Child and adolescent psychiatry — eating disorders

Adolescent anorexia nervosa — medical risk, FBT and refeeding (MEQ)

Specialty psychiatry — sleep medicine interface

Adolescent delayed sleep-wake phase with school failure (MEQ)

Chronic insomnia disorder with residual depression and long-term Z-drug use (MEQ)

Chronic insomnia with depression and hypnotic dependence (MEQ)

Restless legs syndrome with SSRI-associated worsening and low-normal ferritin (MEQ)

Suspected narcolepsy type 1 with near-miss driving and cataplexy (MEQ)

Treatment-resistant depression with probable OSA (MEQ)

foundations — advanced EBM and evidence synthesis

Advanced appraisal of a psychiatry meta-analysis and non-inferiority claim (MEQ)

Professional practice — advocacy

Advocacy, advance planning and the peer workforce (MEQ)

Old age psychiatry — Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer disease — diagnosis, enhancers, and BPSD care (MEQ)

Specialty psychiatry — eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa — medical risk, refeeding, and stepped care (MEQ)

General adult psychiatry — personality disorders

Antisocial personality disorder — dual diagnosis crisis and risk (MEQ)

Avoidant personality disorder — criteria, differentials and stepped care (MEQ)

Borderline personality disorder — crisis assessment and stepped management (MEQ)

Cluster A and C personality — differentials and stepped management (MEQ)

Dependent personality disorder — criteria, risk and stepped care (MEQ)

Histrionic personality disorder — criteria, differentials and frame-based care (MEQ)

ICD-11 dimensional personality disorder — diagnostic formulation and stepped care (MEQ)

Narcissistic and Cluster B spectrum — crisis, formulation and management limits (MEQ)

Paranoid personality disorder — workplace grievance and risk (MEQ)

Schizotypal personality disorder — assessment and stepped management (MEQ)

General adult psychiatry — feeding and eating disorders

ARFID — diagnosis, medical risk, and specialised treatment (MEQ)

Pica and rumination — medical risk, discrimination, and first-line treatment (MEQ)

Child and adolescent psychiatry — attachment disorders

Attachment disorders in children — RAD/DSED assessment and caregiving-first care (MEQ)

Intellectual disability psychiatry — neurodevelopmental dual diagnosis

Autism and ID dual diagnosis — assessment to behaviour and epilepsy (MEQ)

Consultation-liaison psychiatry

Autoimmune encephalitis presenting as first-episode psychosis (MEQ)

Cardiac psychiatry — post-ACS depression, trials, safety (MEQ)

Delirium diagnosis, work-up, and management (MEQ)

Dementia and major NCD — assessment, BPSD, and pharmacotherapy (MEQ)

Demoralisation vs adjustment vs MDD in medical illness (MEQ)

Endocrine psychiatry: thyroid, Cushing, Addison, and steroids (MEQ)

FND in the medical setting — C-L ward MEQ

HD depression, irritability, suicide risk, and VMAT2 interface (MEQ)

Long COVID neuropsychiatry — assessment, pacing and the disability letter (MEQ)

Lupus psychosis and attribution in NPSLE (MEQ)

Mild cognitive impairment — diagnosis, conversion, and management (MEQ)

MS depression, suicide risk, PBA, and steroid mania (MEQ)

Normal pressure hydrocephalus and reversible dementias — MEQ

PD psychosis, depression, and agonist-related ICD (MEQ)

Perinatal psychiatry on the maternity ward: PPP, OCD, lithium, and disposition (MEQ)

Postictal psychosis and interictal depression after seizure cluster (MEQ)

Psycho-oncology: depression, interactions, delirium, and capacity (MEQ)