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/2011/06/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.

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…

SAMPLE PAGE 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