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 in Orlando, Fl, June 23-26, 2010.

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.
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