Teamwork Events
Teamwork events are designed to enhance collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills among participants. These events typically involve teams working together to tackle real-world health challenges, develop innovative solutions, and presenting their findings.
Community Awareness provides HOSA members with the opportunity to educate their own community about one health and/or safety-related issue of local, state, and/or national interest. Teams of 2-6 members plan a local community campaign surrounding a selected topic that will impact their community as a whole. Teams develop a portfolio that documents and explains this community campaign and activities. The team presents their community campaign to a panel of judges, using the portfolio to document their accomplishments. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals and promote local community awareness of health-related issues.
Creative Problem Solving allows members to analyze the problem-solving process and work as a team to apply their problem-solving skills in creating a solution to a hypothetical health or HOSA-related problem. This competitive event consists of 2 rounds, and each team consists of 2 – 6 people. Round One will consist of a written test, and the score will be used to qualify the team for Round Two. In Round Two, teams will be given a potential problem related to HOSA, the health community, or a specific health issue and have 30 minutes to analyze the problem. At the end of the preparation time, teams will have eight (8) minutes to present their solution to a panel of judges. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals and utilize higher order thinking to solve complex challenges.
Health Career Display allows members to research a career of interest, create a display board of associated career materials, and improve their presentation skills by communicating the career information to others. This competitive event consists of two rounds, and each team consists of 2 people. Round One is judging the plan/outline for the Health Career Display board. The top-scoring teams will advance to Round Two for the presentation. This event aims to inspire members to become future health professionals by exciting them about a career of their choosing.
Parliamentary Procedure allows HOSA members to gain the knowledge and skills required to conduct a simulated business meeting by using parliamentary procedure. This competitive event consists of two rounds, and each team consists of 5-8 members. Round One is a written test, and the top-scoring teams will advance to Round Two to conduct a demonstration meeting on a secret topic. The demonstrated meeting should show the participant’s knowledge of parliamentary procedure and should follow the agenda given. The secret topic will include four subsidiary and privileged motions commonly used during a business meeting. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals by learning the importance of cooperation, fair decision-making, and competitive performance.
Forensic Medicine allows HOSA members to work as a team to apply their knowledge and skills in creating a solution to a forensic science-related problem. This competitive event consists of 2 rounds, and each team consists of 2 people. Round One is a written test that evaluates the team’s understanding of forensic science. The test score from Round One will be used to qualify the team for Round Two. In Round Two, teams will be given a case study to analyze, including physical evidence and written information such as police reports and an autopsy. Teams will have six (6) minutes to view the “crime scene” and thirty (30) minutes to write their conclusions with supporting evidence. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals and critically examine elements of a forensic case.
Health Education provides members with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills required to select a health-related concept or instructional objective, then prepare a lesson for a targeted group of learners, provide instruction, and evaluate results. This competitive event consists of a portfolio and presentation to judges and each team consists of 2 - 6 members. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals by educating others on health-related concepts.
HOSA Bowl allows members to gain knowledge and skills on various topics and situations in health, current health topics, HOSA, and parliamentary procedure. This competitive event consists of 2 rounds, and each team consists of exactly four (4) members. Round One is a written test. Top-scoring teams advance to Round Two and compete by responding appropriately to items presented by a moderator in a “buzzer style” round. These items may be in the form of questions, incomplete statements, and/or definitions and may be multi-answer items. Winners will be determined by a series of elimination rounds as described in the event tournament bracket. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals and motivate them to participate in teams while learning about health, HOSA, current health topics, and parliamentary procedure topics.
Medical Innovation provides HOSA members with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills required to impact the future of health and/or the delivery of healthcare through the development of a new medical innovation. In Round One, judges will evaluate the medical innovation plan/outline and the top scoring teams will advance to Round Two for the oral presentation. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals by sharing their unique medical innovation and outcomes with others.
Public Service Announcement allows members to use technology to produce a video public service announcement informing the community about a significant health issue. This competitive event consists of one round, and each team consists of 2-6 people. All teams will show their PSA to a panel of judges and give a presentation about their creative process. This event aims to inspire members to be proactive future health professionals by producing a PSA to promote a health service organization, bring awareness to a health situation, or educate the public at large regarding health and well-being.