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Tropical Medicine · HIV-associated opportunistic infections - PCP ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Akua, a 34-year-old seamstress from Kumasi, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by her husband after three weeks of progressive dyspnoea on exertion, dry cough, and low-grade fever. She has no history of TB…

Tropical Medicine · Severe Acute Malnutrition - F-75 vs F-100 Stabilisation ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 22-month-old girl named Akua is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital nutritional rehabilitation unit. She has marasmus with weight-for-height Z-score of -4.1 and MUAC 10.8 cm. She has been…

Tropical Medicine · Ebola/Marburg - immediate outbreak response and isolation ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Kofi, a 34-year-old male farmer from a rural community in the Brong-Ahafo region, is brought to the district hospital by relatives with a 7-day febrile illness. He initially had myalgia and headache, …

Tropical Medicine · HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (occupational) ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Ama, a 24-year-old female nurse at a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo region, sustains a deep needlestick injury from a hollow-bore needle used for venepuncture on a patient known to be HIV-positive a…

Tropical Medicine · Mycetoma - diagnosis and treatment ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Mohammed, a 45-year-old male farmer from Tolon district in the Northern Region, presents to Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with a 2-year history of a slowly progressive, painless swelling of his right fo…

Tropical Medicine · Urogenital Schistosomiasis - S. haematobium ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Ama, a 28-year-old female farmer from the Keta district of the Volta Region, presents to the district hospital A&E with painless terminal haematuria for 4 months. She bathes and washes clothes daily i…

Tropical Medicine · Severe falciparum malaria - paediatric dosing and hypoglycaemia ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 4-year-old boy, Kwame, is brought by his mother to the district hospital A&E in Kintampo, Brong-Ahafo region, after 3 days of fever and progressive drowsiness. He lives in a rural farming community …

Tropical Medicine · Typhoid fever - Widal test limitations ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Akua, a 19-year-old female student, presents to the regional hospital A&E in Kumasi with a 10-day history of progressive fever, headache, and abdominal discomfort. She returned two weeks ago from a ru…

Tropical Medicine · Dengue shock syndrome - fluid resuscitation ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Kofi, a 7-year-old boy from Tamale, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital paediatric ward by his mother on day 5 of dengue illness, confirmed by NS1 antigen RDT on day 2. He defervesced 12 hours …

Tropical Medicine · Severe Acute Malnutrition - Refeeding Syndrome ★ HY difficulty 4/5

A 3-year-old boy named Yaw is brought to the district hospital A&E in Ashanti Region by his mother. He has severe acute malnutrition (marasmic-kwashiorkor) and has been on F-75 for 4 days. On day 5 of…

Tropical Medicine · Schistosomiasis - Gastrointestinal S. mansoni ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Abena, a 28-year-old primary school teacher from Accra, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 5-day history of intermittent lower abdominal cramping, mucoid diarrhoea with occasional blood-…

Tropical Medicine · ART initiation timing in newly diagnosed HIV ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Akua, a 29-year-old HIV-positive woman, is reviewed in the Tamale Teaching Hospital emergency centre. She was diagnosed with HIV 6 weeks ago following a new sexual partner 3 months prior; her baseline…

Tropical Medicine · T. brucei gambiense - staging and CSF examination ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Kwame, a 38-year-old cocoa farmer from a rural community near Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo region, presents to the district hospital A&E with a 3-week history of intermittent fever, severe headaches, an…

Tropical Medicine · Cryptococcal meningitis - raised ICP management ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Yaw, a 52-year-old fisherman from the Volta Region, is brought to the district hospital by his family with three days of high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, and photophobia. He has never been…

Tropical Medicine · T. brucei gambiense stage 2 - eflornithine/NECT treatment ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Akua, a 29-year-old woman who works as a fishing camp cook along the Pru River in the Bono East region, is brought to the regional hospital A&E by her family after 10 days of worsening confusion, inab…

Tropical Medicine · Visceral leishmaniasis - diagnosis in children ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Kofi, a 7-year-old boy from a farming community in the Upper West region, is brought to the Wa Regional Hospital A&E by his parents with a 3-month history of intermittent fever, progressive weight los…

Tropical Medicine · T. brucei gambiense - clinical staging and CSF examination ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Kofi, a 38-year-old cocoa farmer from the Bono East region, is brought to a district hospital A&E by relatives after three weeks of intermittent fever, severe headaches, and progressive confusion. He …

Tropical Medicine · Strongyloides hyperinfection in HIV/immunosuppressed ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Kofi, a 45-year-old man with known HIV infection (CD4 count 68 cells/µL, not yet on ART), is referred from a district hospital in Ashanti Region to Komfo Anokye ED with a five-day history of profuse w…

Tropical Medicine · African tick-bite fever - eschar and empirical treatment ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Kwame, a 34-year-old cattle herder from the Savannah region near Tamale, presents to Tamale Teaching Hospital A&E with a 5-day history of fever (temperature 39.4°C), severe headache, and a rash that b…

Tropical Medicine · Rabies - WHO exposure classification and PEP ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Kofi, a 9-year-old boy, is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo region by his mother after being bitten on the right hand by a stray dog while playing outside three days ago. The wound …

Tropical Medicine · Cholera - paediatric severe dehydration ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 4-year-old girl named Akua is brought to the paediatric ward of a district hospital in the Northern Region by her mother after one day of watery diarrhoea and two episodes of vomiting. The community…

Tropical Medicine · Typhoid fever - diagnosis and Widal limitations ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Adwoa, a 28-year-old secondary school teacher from Kumasi, presents to Komfo Anokye ED with a 10-day history of progressive fever, headache, and abdominal discomfort. She has not travelled outside Ash…

Tropical Medicine · Snakebite - paediatric antivenom dosing ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Abena, a 9-year-old girl weighing 28 kg, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Brong-Ahafo Region by her father after she was bitten on her left hand by a snake while playing in a cassava farm …

Tropical Medicine · Ascaris intestinal obstruction ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 9-year-old boy named Kwame is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo region by his mother after three days of colicky central abdominal pain, bilious vomiting, and inability to pass fla…

Tropical Medicine · Uncomplicated falciparum malaria - first-line treatment ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Akua, a 28-year-old subsistence farmer from a rural community near Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo region, presents to the district hospital A&E with a 3-day history of fever, chills, headache, and vomiti…

Tropical Medicine · Snakebite envenomation - carpet viper VICC, antivenom administration ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Alhassan, a 34-year-old subsistence farmer from Bawku district in the Upper East Region, is brought to the district hospital A&E by relatives at 22:00 after being bitten on the right ankle by a snake …

Tropical Medicine · Leptospirosis - Weil's syndrome - IV penicillin treatment ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Ama, a 28-year-old rice farmer from the Volta Region, presents to the regional hospital A&E with a 7-day history of high fever, severe myalgia particularly in her calves, headache, and conjunctival su…

Tropical Medicine · HIV-TB co-infection - ART timing and drug interactions ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Abena, a 38-year-old market trader from Cape Coast, presents to the regional hospital A&E with a three-week history of fever, night sweats, and a 6 kg weight loss. She was diagnosed HIV-positive six m…

Tropical Medicine · Buruli ulcer - antibiotic treatment ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Akua, a 34-year-old subsistence farmer from Nkoranza district in Brong-Ahafo region, presents to the district hospital A&E with a 6-week history of a painless swelling on her right forearm that has sl…

Tropical Medicine · IRIS and ART Complications - Paradoxical TB-IRIS ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Kwame, a 34-year-old male subsistence farmer from the Ashanti region, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary TB and HIV co-infection (CD4 count 58 cells/µL) at a district hospital six weeks ago. …