HOSA COMPETITIVE EVENTS TOPICS

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2011-12 National Theme
"HOSA: It's in Our Hearts to Keep Yours Beating”
Submitted by Ohio HOSA

PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS
2010-12 topic category is:
What do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? Perhaps surprisingly, the same steps you'd take in preparation for an onslaught of ravenous monsters are similar to those suggested in advance of a hurricane or pandemic. For this year’s topic, HOSA members should consult the CDC website to determine what is meant by a Zombie Apocalypse, and then prepare a presentation to educate your audience on how to prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse.

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
This can be any topic related to current health issues or HOSA. For example:

• HOSA and Community Service - The Benefits of Service Learning
• Teens and Smoking
• The Value of HOSA in Promoting Career Opportunities in Healthcare
• Childhood Obesity - Problems and Solutions

PREPARED SPEAKING/SPEAKING SKILLS
The speech topic is the national theme:
"HOSA: It's in Our Hearts to Keep Yours Beating”

EXTEMPORANEOUS WRITING
This can be any topic related to Health Science Education or HOSA, such as:

• HOSA: A Contributing Member of the Healthcare Community
  • How does HOSA contribute to the healthcare community?
  • What types of services does HOSA provide?
  • What are the benefits to the healthcare community?
  • What are the benefits to HOSA members?

• Eating Right
• Tips for Skin Cancer Prevention
• The Benefits of HOSA Membership

• Hospitals: Bigger Is Better
• Fat Tax: Fighting Obesity by Raising the Price of Fatty and Unhealthy Foods
  

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
The secret topic requires the team to solve a problem. The problem may be related to healthcare or HOSA. Generally, the problem is complex, involving many factors with no clear right or wrong answer. Supportive material is provided. The solution often requires the team to consider time, money, people and creativity in the solution.

BIOMEDICAL DEBATE
2011-12 topic is:
“Social Media – Is it Good or Bad for Your Health?"
Teams who draw the affirmative will debate the benefits of social media on health. Teams who draw the negative will debate that social media is harmful to your health. In doing some preliminary research, it looks like there are many sites and experts who believe that social media contributes to depression, low self-esteem, cyberbullying, etc. Other sites take the opposite stand, saying that social media de-stigmatizes mental illness, and provides an avenue for support groups for various health concerns through Twitter, etc.

The multiple choice questions on the Round One Test will assess knowledge of the topic.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE
The event guidelines contain a sample problem. Typically, the problem includes one or two main motions, with four or five other types of motions to be applied to the main motion in the course of the meeting.

FORENSIC MEDICINE
The event guidelines contain a sample problem. Typically, the problem includes a crime scene or description of the events leading to the death of a victim(s), and additional documentation which generally includes an autopsy.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
2011-12 topic is:
“Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet"
The actual title can be changed by the team, as long as the PSA encourages the public to properly identify and expose of unused and expired medications.

MEDICAL READING
Questions for the Round One Test will come from the following books:

• Breakthrough by Jon Queijo
• The Blue Death by Robert T. Morris
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders

Two alternate books have been selected. Teams will be asked, which of the alternate books they wish to be questioned on during Round Two. Round Two will consist of 4 questions from each of the four books listed above, and four questions from one alternate book of the team’s choosing. The alternate books are:

• Diagnoses from the Dead by Richard Prayson
• Body of Work by Christine Montross

SKILL EVENTS
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS - HEALTH PROFESSIONS - LEADERSHIP
Each skill event with procedures is written up as a scenario. The scenario requires the competitor to demonstrate 1-3 skills (procedures) as listed in the event guidelines as part of a potential "situation" in which a healthcare worker might actually perform the skill (s). The competitor performs the procedures of the event and is evaluated by a judge or judges.

HOSA WEEK
November 6-12, 2011
The preferred dates for HOSA Week will be the first full week (Sunday through Saturday) of November. If desired, chapters may designate an alternate week as “HOSA Week” for their chapter to fulfill the requirements of this event.

NATIONAL SERVICE PROJECT
The National Service Project from 2010 to 2012 will be the: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

For more information on these and other HOSA Competitive Events, read Section B of
HOSA Handbook - Competitive Events Guidelines, or ask your HOSA Advisor.