Health Science 1
Depression, anxiety, addiction, and eating disorders all appear in this event. Competitors study how psychological conditions are identified, how they affect daily life, and how they are treated.
What is Behavioral Health?
In this event, a single misplaced letter can make an answer wrong. Competitors must correctly write out long, difficult clinical words such as “ophthalmology” and “diarrhea.”
What is Medical Spelling?
When a disaster strikes, professional responders may not reach everyone right away. This event is built around volunteers trained in skills such as fire suppression, triage, and light search and rescue.
What is CERT Skills?
This event looks beyond treating illness to supporting emotional well-being across a community. Competitors focus on raising awareness, reducing stigma, and connecting people with support.
What is Mental Health Promotion?
Competitors in this event must know the vocabulary used in a dentist’s office. It covers the names of teeth and mouth structures, along with common procedures and oral diseases.
What is Dental Terminology?
Success in this event depends on comprehension. Competitors study assigned health-related texts, then answer questions that show how well they understood and interpreted the material.
What is Medical Reading?
Competitors in this event learn how to respond when someone collapses or gets hurt. Skills include chest compressions, rescue breaths, controlling bleeding, and bandaging wounds.
What is CPR/First Aid?
Chapters in this event work with a local volunteer medical organization on activities that benefit the community. Competitors document those activities and their impact in a portfolio.
What is MRC Partnership?
This event sits where healthcare meets technology. Competitors learn how patient information is recorded, stored, and protected, including through electronic records and privacy laws such as HIPAA.
What is Health Informatics?
Accuracy can be a matter of patient safety in this event. Competitors calculate dosages, convert between measurement systems, and work through the kinds of numerical problems that healthcare workers face.
What is Medical Math?
Competitors in this event step into the role of a prehospital medical responder. They must assess a patient at the scene, make quick treatment decisions, and provide care before the patient reaches the hospital.
What is Emergency Medical Technician?
This event looks at health across entire populations rather than individual patients. Teams create a dynamic presentation that educates people about a selected issue, such as the effects of ultra-processed food.
What is Public Health?
This event follows a person from conception through old age. Competitors study the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that take place at each stage of life.
What is Human Growth and Development?
This event focuses on the drugs used to treat patients. Competitors study drug classes, how medications act on the body, how the body processes them, and possible side effects.
What is Pharmacology?
Often called “disease detectives,” the professionals behind this event track how illnesses spread. Competitors study outbreaks, risk factors, and patterns of disease across populations.
What is Epidemiology?
Competitors in this event break long clinical words into prefixes, roots, and suffixes to work out what they mean. Knowing that “cardi-” refers to the heart and “-itis” means inflammation is a good start.
What is Medical Terminology?
Instead of asking how the body works when it’s healthy, this event asks what happens when something goes wrong. Competitors study how diseases develop and how they disrupt normal body functions.
What is Pathophysiology?
Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals are all on the menu in this event. Competitors study how food fuels the body and how diet affects long-term wellness and disease.
What is Nutrition?
Designed for HOSA members with special needs, this event focuses on lifesaving techniques. Competitors practice and demonstrate selected skills that could help someone in a medical emergency.
What is Life Support Skills?
Patient consent, confidentiality, malpractice, and end-of-life decisions are all covered here. Competitors must understand both what the rules require and what is morally right in a clinical setting.
What is Medical Law and Ethics?