CE Topics and Updates 2012-13
HOSA: Build a Better You!
• Revised event guidelines will be
online in August.
• General changes will include:
 Editorial improvements to help
clarify the guidelines.
 Test plan and resource updates.
Event Title Changes
• Public Health Emergency
Preparedness will become:
Public Health.
• National Recognition Program will
become:
National Recognition Portfolio.
CERT Skills
• The guidelines are being revised to
reflect the 2011 CERT curriculum
updates.
• The revision will include an
additional skill(s) and an update of
current skills.
2012-13 Topic: Public Health
National Prevention Strategy
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/0
6/prevention06162011a.html
Teams will use the National Prevention
Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health
and Wellness as their resource for
developing a public health presentation.
2012-13 Topic: Public Health
National Prevention Strategy
The presentation will be about one or more
of the following strategies that contribute to
the prevention of disease and the promotion
of healthy practices.
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Injury and violence free living
Tobacco free living
Preventing drug abuse and excessive alcohol use
Active living
Healthy eating
2012-13 Topics:
Researched Persuasive
Speaking
• Hospital Hiring Practices: Persons
Who Smoke or Have Visible Tattoos
Need Not Apply
• Junk Food Ban in Schools
Healthy Lifestyle
• Addition of text resource – Dr. A’s
Habits of Health by Dr. Wayne Scott
Anderson
• Revised test plan
• Editorial changes
2012-13 Topic: Biomedical
Debate
• Physician Participation in Lifestyle
Rationing
• Should doctors decide whether to treat you or
perform certain kinds of surgeries based on
whether you are a smoker or not, along with
whether you are obese? Physicians say they
already routinely deny many cosmetic surgeries
and fertility treatments to smokers and the obese,
and these factors are used to determine eligibility
for many organ transplant procedures.
2012-13 Topics: Public
Service Announcement
• No Pressure! Tips for
Recognizing and Preventing
Hypertension
Medical Reading
• Books for 2012-13
 Brain Rules
 The Third Wave
 Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl
 The Deadly Dinner Party
 The End of Illness
Medical Reading
• MAJOR CHANGE for 2012-13
• Individual event in Health Science
category.
• One written test
• 50 multiple-choice questions
• 5 short essay
Outstanding HOSA Chapter
• Major changes for 2012-13
• The event concept remains the same
but the rating scale format is now
changed to a rubric.
• For example…
SAMPL
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FROM
OHC
RUBRIC
New Knowledge Test
• DELETE Concepts of Health Care
• ADD Medical Law and Ethics
• Resources:
 Medical Law and Ethics by Bonnie
F. Fremgen
 Medical Law, Ethics and Bioethics
by Lewis, Tamparo and Tatro
Public Health
• Total amount of preparation
time will be reduced to 11
minutes and presentation time
to 10 minutes.
Prepared Speaking
and Speaking Skills
• Topic for 2012-13:
HOSA: Caring for the Future
General Rules and Regulations
• Communication Rule – It is the
competitor’s responsibility to communicate
fully and effectively with judges. In spelling
events, this may include verbalizing
capitalization, separate words, and
punctuation. For skill events, this may
include “thinking out loud” so that judges
are clear on why the competitors are doing
what they are doing.
General Rules and Regulations
• Revision of Team Eligibility Rule
• A team event must include at least 25% of
the members who were members of the
winning team at the state level. Other
"qualified" student members may be
substituted or added in the remaining team
positions so that the number of team
members is consistent with the rules for
that event.
Events with Written Tests
• Beginning in 2012-12, sample test questions
will be included in the event guidelines.
For the MOST current
guidelines:
• Go to http://www.hosa.org/natorg/sectb/index.html