HOSA (HOSA) needs health care professionals to judge the competitive events program. Judges are volunteers who enjoy contributing to a young person's education and achievements by serving as an event judge.

HOSA judging exists at many levels. For information on judging at the regional or state level, contact the State Advisor from the state that interests you.

If you wish to judge at the national level, the HOSA National Leadership Conference will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN, June 24-27, 2009.

Please see the following PDF documents for more judging information:

• Invitation to Judge
• Judge Registration Form*

To submit your name as a potential National Judge, or if you would like to be contacted by a State Advisor, please send the following information to dvp@hosa.org.

• Name
• Professional background and training
• Event you are interested in
• State or National conference?
• Complete mailing address and phone number

Judges are needed for the following events:

Medical Spelling	Health care professionals are needed to pronounce complex medical terms and judge the competitors on their accuracy in spelling those terms.
Dental Spelling	Dental care professionals are needed to pronounce complex dental terms and judge the competitors on their accuracy in spelling those terms.
CPR/First Aid or First Aid/Rescue Breathing	Judges for this event must be ARC First Aid instructors or American Heart Association Instructors, or EMTs, or Paramedics, or RNs with emergency certification. The First Aid/Rescue Breathing event is exclusively for students with special needs.
Home Health Aide	Nursing professions are needed to evaluate two or more of the following skills: tympanic temperature, apical pulse, emptying a urinary drainage unit, dressing and ointment to broken skin, back rub, denture care, pulling a patient up in bed, and applying TED hose.
Sports Medicine	Certified athletic trainers are needed to judge competitors as they perform the following procedures: Taping and stretching.
Veterinary Assisting	Veterinarians or Veterinary Technicians are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: Position and prepare animal for surgery, restrain for venipuncture, wrap instruments and surgical gown, chart a preliminary physical, perform canine CPR, apply gauze muzzle restraint, and prepare for a surgical procedure.
Clinical Specialty	Competitors choose a health career. Judges evaluate a career portfolio or a videotaped demonstration of a selected skill common to the chosen health career. The career portfolio is created by the competitor to show career understanding and documentation of a related work-based learning experience.
Extemporaneous Health Poster	Judges with art, graphic arts, marketing or similar skills evaluate artistic posters that interpret a health-related topic.
Extemporaneous Speaking Prepared Speaking	Judges evaluate public speaking skills.
Speaking Skills	Judges evaluate public speaking skills. THIS IS A SPECIAL NEEDS EVENT: Students compete only against other special needs students.
Medical Photography	Judges rate three digital photographs which competitors have taken which illustrate three different careers in health profession.
Researched Persuasive Speaking	Judges evaluate either a written research paper or a persuasive speech as part of this event.
Job Seeking Skills	Judges rate students who participate in a mock job interview for a healthcare position.
Interviewing Skills	Judges rate students who participate in a mock job interview for a healthcare position. THIS IS A SPECIAL NEEDS EVENT: Students in this event compete only against other special needs students.
Extemporaneous Writing	Healthcare and English language experts are needed to judge the written essays in this event.
Career Health Display	Healthcare professionals judge a display and oral presentation related to a health career from a pair of competitors.
Community Awareness	Judges evaluate a project carried out by a HOSA chapter to inform their community about a health issue. A team of judges either evaluates a written notebook documenting the chapter's efforts, or an oral presentation by a team of chapter members.
Biomedical Debate	Health professionals are needed to judge either a preliminary round or an actual debate. Teams will debate on an annual topic. The 2008-2009 topic is "Cord Blood for Sale."
HOSA Bowl	Health professionals are needed to judge team answers to medical terminology and related questions in this "College Bowl" format.
Medical Reading	Health professionals evaluate competitor responses to questions from medically-related and leadership books.
Creative Problem Solving	Competitors are given a real or hypothetical health problem, and must apply the problem solving process to propose a solution to a panel of judges.
Health Education	Health Educators or other health professionals judge a videotape of students delivering a health-related lesson, or they interview the students to evaluate the planning, delivery and evaluation of the lesson.
Forensic Medicine	Teams will be given a case study and asked to identify the time of death, immediate cause of death, manner of death and record their remarks (pertinent observations) about the case that explains why they came to the conclusions they reached.
Public ServiceAnnouncement	Judges will evaluate a PSA that brings awareness to a healthcare situation, or educates the public at large in regard to health and well-being. This year’s topic is "Volunteer: Help Make Your Community Healthier and Safer."
Public Heath Emergency	Teams select a topic of public health concern and create an effective public health presentation to educate the public on the chosen topic.
Public Heath Preparedness	Specific topic selection will be based on a category announced annually. *Natural Disasters & Severe Weather* is the topic for 2008-09.