1. Welcome to HOSA!

2. What is HOSA?

3. Membership Benefits Exposure to the health professions
Refined health-related skills in and out of competition
Access to lots of HOSA-only scholarships!
Access to internships and partnerships with the MRC and Surgeon General
Network of over 3 million alumni
Community Service opportunities
Friends that will last a lifetime
The opportunity to travel for your competitions!
Refined leadership skills through competition and through serving as officers
Applying to colleges as members of a huge and well-respected student-led organization supported by the Department of Education
Honor Cords for seniors through NTHS

4. What We Do Compete! Career-Related Activities Community Service
Our main focus in the chapter
Allows students to learn about a career area in great detail
Exposure to medical fields
Competitions in many places (Disney, LA, Nashville, Dallas)
Career-Related Activities
Previous years: MDFR visit, interactive crime scene, Dr. Miami lunch Skype
This year: hopefully many more!
Community Service
In conjunction with TERRA’s ICC: toy drive, thanksgiving food drive
Us only: IRONMAN 70.3 Miami, various drives this year

5. 2017-18 Chapter Officers President: Gabriel Blanco
President-Elect: Raquel Morales
Vice Presidents:
Elizabeth Brito-Clinical Competitive Events
Ericka Ames-Practical Competitive Events 
Secretary: Ana Blanco
Treasurer: William Abreu
Reporter: Adam Blahnik
Historian: Tatyanna Suarez
Parliamentarian: Dariam Leal
Activities Director: Carolina Carrandi
Conference Manager: Matteo Claure

6. General Club Information
Meetings are typically every 3rd Tuesday of the month.
You are only allowed 2 unexcused absences
If you cannot make it to a meeting please us in advance with your reason and your absence will be excused
You must maintain a 3.0 unweighted GPA to be a member of TERRA HOSA and NTHS
Seniors: HOSA scholarships/alumni info are on the TERRA HOSA website

7. National Technical Honor Society (NTHS)
All TERRA HOSA seniors will get honor cords through NTHS
This Honor Society is an umbrella society under which HOSA falls
You must maintain a 3.0 GPA to get cords
You may not abstain from any competition without excuse
You may not have more than two unexcused absences from meetings
You may not be on academic, attendance, or disciplinary probation
You must be committed to HOSA!

8. Club Fees Club Dues Total: $40 State: $12 National: $10
Regional: $8
State: $12
National: $10
TERRA HOSA: $10 (the club only gets $10 per member)
Spent on cords and competition & travel fees
Sponsorship letter is on the TERRA HOSA Website.
Let us know if you have any fundraising ideas!
Collection Date: October 16-25
Will be done online this year

9. Choosing your Competition
You can find a list of all the competitive events and their guidelines here:
You can also access them from the chapter’s website!
START RESEARCHING COMPETITIONS!
You’ll need to know which competitions interest you for your application, so start looking ASAP.
There’s a file on the club website that contains personality quizzes and other tools to help you discover your ideal competition!
There is a competition for practically everything, so look around and see which one suits you best.
Some competitions are teamwork events.

10. Cool Competitions to Apply for
Career Track: Pharmacist
Pharmacology
Medical Math
Career Track: Lawyer
Parliamentary Procedure
Medical Law & Ethics
Biomedical Debate
Creative Problem Solving
Career Track: Physician
Pathophysiology
Medical Spelling or Terminology
Medical Reading
Medical Assisting
MANY, MANY MORE!
Career Track: Public Health
Public Health
Epidemiology
Public Service Announcement

11. Cool Competitions to Apply for
Career Track: Dentist
Dental Science
Dental Terminology
Career Track: Psychology
Behavioral Health
Human Growth & Development
Transcultural Healthcare
Specialties
Physical Therapy
Sports Medicine
Veterinary Science
Forensic Medicine
Many more!
Career Track: Emergency Preparedness
CERT
CPR/First Aid
EMT
Epidemiology

12. Undecided? Confused? There are many general competitions!
Job Seeking Skills
Prepared Speaking
Researched Persuasive Speaking and Writing
Community Awareness
HOSA Bowl
Medical Math!
Medical Spelling, Reading, Terminology
Many, many more (over 50)!

13. Interested in a Specialty We Didn’t Discuss?
Check our website for some quizzes and other helpful tools to find your ideal competition!
Many other specialties like Nutrition and Biotechnology are also available
If you still have trouble selecting competitions or want to know more info, talk to us after the meeting, during school, or us!

14. Florida Competitions
Some competitions are only available in the state of Florida
Massage Therapy
Family Medicine
Everyone is welcome to apply for these competitions! They still offer great learning experiences
The only drawback: these events don’t exist at the international level
Even if you win first place at the state competition, you won’t be able to advance to the ILC
We still encourage anyone interested to apply!
Benefit: they’re not too competitive!

15. This will be on the website forever!
You won’t have to get any of this until we tell you (most likely around January)

16. Applications Club Applications are on the TERRA HOSA website!
Online through Google Forms: Application
Complete and turn in by Friday, October 13th by 2:20 pm
Competition Placement will be posted online by Monday!

17. This year’s theme

18. Important Events – Save the date!!
HOSA Week: November 5-11
Online Testing: November 13-December 4
Test Results: December 14 (On or before)☺
Regional Competitions: February Robert Morgan
Awards Breakfast: February Doubletree—Airport (MACC)
States: April Gaylord Palms
Internationals: June Dallas Convention Center (Dallas, Texas)

19. The Next Meeting
Typically, we will be holding mandatory Monthly Meetings every 3rd Tuesday of the month
We might also have additional meetings as well, we’ll try to give you a week’s notice

20. CONTACT US Website: www.terrahosa.weebly.com Instagram: @terrahosa
REMIND 101: 81010
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21. We look forward to an amazing 2017-2018 HOSA year!