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Infectious Disease · Yellow fever — clinical features and malaria differentiation difficulty 3/5

A 28-year-old woman, Afia, presents to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region with a 4-day history of sudden-onset fever, severe headache, myalgia, and lower back pain. She is a farmer who has not…

Infectious Disease / Immunocompromised Host · Post-splenectomy sepsis - pathophysiology and mechanism difficulty 4/5

Akua, a 34-year-old woman, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti region having been referred from a district facility. She underwent splenectomy five years ago following a road traffic co…

Infectious Disease / Paediatrics · Cholera — paediatric IV fluid resuscitation volumes difficulty 3/5

A 5-year-old boy named Kofi is carried into a district hospital in the Bono East Region by his mother. He has had watery diarrhoea for 10 hours and has not urinated for 6 hours. He is lethargic and hi…

Infectious Disease / Surgical Emergencies · Typhoid perforation — laboratory diagnosis and clinical features difficulty 3/5

A 14-year-old boy, Yaw, is brought to a regional hospital emergency department in Ashanti by his father after 2 weeks of fever at home. Three days ago he developed mild periumbilical pain which has no…

Infectious Disease / Tropical Medicine · Lassa fever isolation and referral at district level difficulty 3/5

You are the medical officer on duty at a district hospital in the Upper West Region of Ghana. A 52-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought by her son with a 4-day history of fever, headache, and severe lowe…

Infectious Disease / Tropical Medicine · Lassa fever — clinical and epidemiological diagnosis difficulty 3/5

A 34-year-old woman, Fatima, presents to the emergency centre at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with a 6-day history of fever, severe sore throat, and progressive weakness. She is a nurse who was deployed…

Infectious Disease / Tropical Medicine · Praziquantel 40 mg/kg — empirical treatment of acute schistosomiasis difficulty 3/5

A 45-year-old teacher, Yaw, presents to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo with a 4-week history of generalised fatigue, urticarial rash, and recurrent abdominal discomfort. He gives a history of chil…

Musculoskeletal Emergencies · Washout urgency and empiric antibiotics at district level difficulty 3/5

A 19-year-old man named Kofi presents to a district hospital in the Upper East Region with a 2-day history of severe pain and swelling in his right knee after a minor football injury. Temperature is 3…

Neurology · Seizures with fever - investigation priority in malaria-endemic setting difficulty 3/5

A 19-year-old man named Yaw presents to a district hospital A&E in the Upper West Region. He has had three discrete tonic-clonic seizures over the past 2 hours, each lasting 2-3 minutes with full reco…

Neurology · Cluster headache - pharmacology and abortive therapy mechanism difficulty 4/5

Kwabena, a 38-year-old male teacher with no significant past medical history, presents to the A&E of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region with a severe unilateral left-sided periorbital headache …

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Resource-limited management and pre-referral treatment difficulty 4/5

A 2.5-year-old boy is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region with 3 days of cough and fever. Temperature 38.6°C, RR 42 breaths/min, HR 132 bpm, SpO2 95% on room air, weight 12 kg. He is…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · WHO IMCI fast breathing classification difficulty 2/5

A mother brings her 14-month-old son, Kofi, to a district hospital in the Upper West Region. He has had cough and difficulty breathing for 2 days. He is alert and feeding, though less than usual. Temp…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Severe Malaria - Fluid Balance and Pulmonary Oedema difficulty 4/5

Akua, a 5-year-old girl weighing 18 kg, is admitted to the regional hospital paediatric ward with cerebral malaria. She has been receiving IV artesunate for 18 hours and her GCS has improved from 8 to…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Oral amoxicillin vs IV ampicillin + gentamicin difficulty 3/5

A 3-year-old boy, Mohammed, is referred from a health centre in Northern Region to a district hospital with a 3-day history of cough, fever, and fast breathing. The health centre had already started h…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · WETFAG framework - fluid bolus calculation difficulty 2/5

A 9-year-old girl, Akua, weighing 28 kg, is in cardiac arrest in the Korle Bu paediatric resus bay. CPR is ongoing. The monitor shows pulseless electrical activity (PEA). She received one dose of adre…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Oxygen indications in childhood pneumonia difficulty 2/5

Afia, a 20-month-old girl, is brought to the emergency unit of a regional hospital in Ashanti Region. Her mother says she has had cough for 4 days and stopped breastfeeding yesterday. On examination s…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Cerebral Malaria - WHO Diagnostic Criteria difficulty 3/5

Ama, a 7-year-old girl weighing 22 kg, is referred from a district hospital in the Upper East Region with 5 days of fever, inability to walk, and two witnessed seizures today. On arrival at the region…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · Danger signs and co-infection management difficulty 4/5

Yaa, a 3-year-old girl, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with cough for 5 days. She has had one seizure at home lasting about 2 minutes (now resolved). Temperature 39.8°C, RR 50 breaths/m…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · WHO classification of dehydration severity difficulty 2/5

A mother brings her 14-month-old son, Kofi, to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo. He has had watery diarrhoea 8 times and vomited 3 times over the past 18 hours. He is irritable and crying. Vitals: H…

Paediatric Emergency Medicine · WHO IMCI fast breathing classification and threshold application difficulty 3/5

Abena, a 4-year-old girl, is brought to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo Region with a 2-day history of cough and fever. She is eating and drinking normally. On examination: temperature 38.2°C, HR 1…

Respiratory Emergencies · Aspiration pneumonia and lung abscess difficulty 3/5

Yaw, a 52-year-old subsistence farmer, presents to a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region with a 3-week history of cough productive of foul-smelling, dark-brown sputum, fever, and 6 kg weight l…

Respiratory Emergencies · COPD exacerbation — antibiotic indications difficulty 2/5

A 58-year-old man is seen at a district hospital emergency unit in the Northern Region. He has a chronic productive cough and uses salbutamol inhalers. He presents with 4 days of increased breathlessn…

Tropical Medicine · Dengue fever - returned traveller difficulty 3/5

Kofi, a 22-year-old student, presents to the regional hospital A&E in Tamale with a 5-day history of sudden-onset high fever, severe retro-orbital headache, myalgia, and a generalised maculopapular ra…

Tropical Medicine · Severe falciparum malaria - pulmonary oedema difficulty 4/5

Kofi, a 45-year-old cocoa farmer from Western Region, is referred to the regional hospital A&E on day 3 of a febrile illness with worsening breathlessness. He has no prior cardiac history and has not …

Tropical Medicine · Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever - diagnosis difficulty 4/5

Ama, a 42-year-old livestock trader, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Upper East Region with a 4-day history of fever, severe headache, myalgia, and back pain. She returned 6 days ago from a…

Tropical Medicine · Typhoid fever - encephalopathy and relative bradycardia difficulty 3/5

Ama, a 19-year-old university student in Accra, presents to a regional hospital A&E with 8 days of fever, severe headache, and increasing drowsiness. She returned 12 days ago from a two-week visit to …

Tropical Medicine · Severe falciparum malaria - post-malaria neurological syndrome difficulty 4/5

A 6-year-old boy named Mensah is reviewed on the paediatric ward at a regional hospital in the Central Region, three weeks after successful treatment for confirmed cerebral malaria with IV artesunate …

Tropical Medicine · Severe acute malnutrition - sepsis and empirical antibiotics difficulty 3/5

A 2.5-year-old girl named Akua is admitted to the paediatric ward of a district hospital in the Ashanti Region. She was brought by her father, a cocoa farmer, after 10 days of progressive oedema and s…

Tropical Medicine · Severe scrub typhus - IV doxycycline - encephalitis difficulty 4/5

Kofi, a 38-year-old cocoa farm labourer from the Ashanti Region, is brought to the district hospital A&E by relatives with a 12-day history of fever, severe headache, altered consciousness, and a gene…

Tropical Medicine · Chikungunya arthralgia - diagnosis and management difficulty 3/5

Mohammed, a 45-year-old subsistence farmer from the Brong-Ahafo region, presents to a district hospital A&E 10 days after returning from a 2-week pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. He reports severe b…