| 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. |
| 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. |
| Clinical Specialty |
Health professionals are needed to judge this event where competitors select the health career of their choice – then develop career-related skills, knowledge and work-based experience. |
| Extemporaneous Health Poster |
Judges with art, graphic arts, marketing or similar skills evaluate artistic posters that interpret a health-related topic. |
Extemp. 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 a written research paper or a persuasive speech as part of this event. |
| Speaking Skills |
Judges evaluate public speaking skills. THIS IS A SPECIAL NEEDS EVENT: Students compete only against other special needs students. |
| 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 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 2009-2010 topic is “Drug Testing: Should high school students face mandatory drug tests?” The question to be considered in the preliminary round will be based on this year’s topic. |
| 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 Service Announcement |
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: “Let’s Get Ready, America!” www.ready.gov Ready is a national public service advertising campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation. |
| Personal Care |
Individuals perform patient care skills such as bedmaking, handwashing, positioning, transferring, and measuring TPR. |
| Medical Assisting |
Individuals perform skills in medical assisting that may include wrapping instruments, medical history, infant height and weight, vital signs, positioning and gloving. |
| Physical Therapy |
Judges will evaluate the competitor on one or more of the following skills: ambulating with a gait belt, walker, cane or crutches; range of motion, and ice pack application. |
| Public Health Emergency Preparedness |
Teams select a topic of public health concern and create an effective public health presentation to educate the public on the chosen topic. Specific topic selection will be based on a category announced annually. The topic category is: Recent Outbreaks and Incidents |