USMLE Step 2 CK · 10–15% of the exam
USMLE Step 2 CK psychiatry questions
Psychiatry (clinical science) makes up 10–15% of Step 2 CK on the official content outline. Argonaut has 62 Step 2 CK behavioral health questions.
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Free Step 2 CK psychiatry questions
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- Anxiety disordersA 34-year-old woman comes to the clinic after three episodes of sudden pounding heartbeat, shortness of breath, and intense fear that peak within several minutes.AQ-1430
- Suicide and self-harm Daily #25A 16-year-old boy is seen with his mother after telling a school counselor 1 week ago that he had considered taking all of his mother's prescription medicines after an argument.30 Oct 2026
- Eating disordersA 22-year-old woman is evaluated for episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food within a short period.AQ-1526
What to expect
What Step 2 CK asks in psychiatry questions
General guidance from the content outline and how questions on this subject are usually built.
- Diagnosis from the history: mood, anxiety, psychotic, somatic symptom and personality disorders.
- First-line treatment, and what to do when it fails.
- Adverse effects of psychiatric drugs, including emergencies such as neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
- Substance use, intoxication and withdrawal.
- Safety: suicide risk, decision-making capacity and involuntary treatment.
- Psychiatry in pregnancy and after delivery.
Share from the official USMLE Step 2 CK content outline, checked 11 October 2026.
Coverage
Topics in the bank
25 topics, with the number of Step 2 CK questions on each. Topics with a chapter link to the Library.
- Somatic symptom disordersFree7
- Anxiety disordersFree6
- Peripartum mood disorders5
- Factitious disorders4
- Depressive disorders3
- Eating disordersFree3
- Gender dysphoria3
- Grief and bereavement3
- Personality disorders3
- Anorexia nervosa with refeeding syndrome2
- Bipolar disorders2
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome2
- Substance use disorders2
- Alcohol use and withdrawal1
- Ambivalence about changing a health behavior1
- Bulimia nervosa1
- Bulimia nervosa with co-occurring depressive symptoms1
- Delusional disorder, jealous type1
- Exertional heat stroke1
- Lactational dyspareunia due to estrogen suppression1
- Neurodevelopmental disorders1
- Opioid use disorder1
- Schizophrenia1
- Suicide and self-harm1
- Unhealthy alcohol use and alcohol use disorder screening1
Keep going
Read, then practice
- Anxiety disordersWhen a patient has abrupt episodes of fear with prominent physical symptoms, take the symptoms seriously and consider medical causes before diagnosing panic disorder.Free chapter
- Eating disordersRecognize that marked bradycardia and orthostatic instability in a patient with restrictive eating warrant inpatient medical stabilization, even when BMI is not severely low.Free chapter
- Somatic symptom disordersRecognize that a positive Hoover sign reflects preserved motor output to a weak leg during a task that recruits an involuntary motor synergy. Use this finding to support functional weakness without inferring intentional deception.Free chapter
- Step 2 CK internal medicine questions55–65% of Step 2 CK
- Step 2 CK OB/GYN questions10–20% of Step 2 CK
Psychiatry questions, answered.
01How many Step 2 CK psychiatry questions does Argonaut have?
62 in the bank today, each a full clinical vignette with every answer choice explained. 3 of them are free to try on this page.
02How much of Step 2 CK is psychiatry content?
The official Step 2 CK content outline puts Psychiatry (clinical science) at 10–15% of the exam. Shares are ranges because items can count toward more than one area. Read the outline.
03Are these psychiatry questions free?
The questions listed here are free, with full explanations and no account. The rest of the Step 2 CK bank comes with Full access: $48 once, which also covers Step 1. See pricing.
04What's the best way to practice psychiatry questions?
Do a mixed block first to find your weak topics, then drill them, and read every explanation, not only the ones you missed. Our guide on reviewing USMLE questions shows how. In Full access, ARGO picks those topics for you.
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