The Consultant Examines You!

Test your psychiatry knowledge in an oral exam with a senior consultant. Choose the specialist, the topic, and whether the consultant is supportive or challenging.

What you practise

• Understand the indications and criteria for starting clozapine
• Know the monitoring routines (blood tests, intervals, threshold values)
• Manage common and serious adverse effects
• Dosing, up-titration and therapeutic plasma concentrations
• Understand drug interactions, particularly smoking and CYP1A2

Who you can meet

• Dr. Lindgren, 55 — Experienced consultant psychiatrist who examines you on clozapine: indications, monitoring, adverse effects and dosing.
• Dr. Ekström, 48 — Consultant specialising in bipolar disorder who examines you on lithium: indications, monitoring, adverse effects and practical management.
• Dr. Holm, 42 — Addiction medicine consultant who examines you on opioid substitution treatment: buprenorphine, methadone, indications and practical management.

What the feedback looks at

• Factual accuracy
• Clinical reasoning
• Depth of understanding
• Handling pressure and follow-up questions
• Structure and clarity

Rated against: There is no published, validated assessment instrument for oral knowledge exams in psychiatry. The dimensions and level descriptions below were therefore developed by PsychBase and are not taken from any established instrument. You are assessed against the content of this exercise's own knowledge base, which in turn draws on FASS and the summary of product characteristics for Leponex, the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare's regulations on medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence. The source material was fact-checked and corrected on 2026-08-02. The scores are set by a language model and do not amount to an assessment made by an experienced examiner. The scores control nothing in your progression and do not determine whether you can move on. None of the sources named has reviewed or approved this exercise.

This lab is for clinical training. The patient is generated by an AI language model from a written case; no real patient and no patient data are involved. Browsing is open; starting a session needs a free account.