Medical Spelling 

Healthcare 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.

Administrative Medical 
Assisting

Medical assistants are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: telephone techniques, transcribe progress notes, complete insurance form, alphabetical filing, patient information data entry and coding.

CPR/First Aid

Judges for this event must be ARC first aid instructors, American Heart Association instructors, EMTs, Paramedics or RNs with emergency certification.

Dental Assisting

Dental professionals are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: receive, seat and prepare patient, mount dental radiographs, prepare alginate impression, pour models, prepare tray set-ups and identify instruments.

EMT

Judges for this event must be EMTs.

Medical Assisting 
Clinical

Medical assistants are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: wrap items for autoclave, obtain medical history, vital signs, infant weight and length, position and drape, and sterile gloving.

Medical Laboratory 
Assisting

Medical laboratory professionals are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: venipuncture, microhematocrit, urinalysis and bacteriology.

Nursing Assisting

Nurses are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: handwashing, bedmaking, positioning, transferring, vital signs and preparing a patient for a meal.

Personal Care

Nurses are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: handwashing, bedmaking, positioning, transferring and TPR. 
THIS IS A SPECIAL NEEDS EVENT: Students are held to an acceptable standard of care, but compete only against other special needs students.

Rescue Breathing

Emergency care professionals are needed to judge competitors as they perform first aid and rescue breathing.
THIS IS A SPECIAL NEEDS EVENT: Students in this event compete only against other special needs students.

Sports Medicine

Certified athletic trainers are needed to judge competitors as they perform the following procedures: taping and stretching.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapists or PT assistants are needed to judge competitors as they perform two or more of the following procedures: ambulating with a walker, adjusting crutches, range of motion, ice pack application and gaits.

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.

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.

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 2001-2002 topic related to "Embryonic Stem Cell Research."

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.

Parliamentary Procedure

Registered parliamentarians are needed to judge a simulated business meeting.

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.

Outstanding HOSA 
Member

Judges interview outstanding HOSA members.

Outstanding HOSA 
Chapter

Judges evaluate a chapter scrapbook of activities that were done during the year.