HOSA – Future Health Professionals is a student-led organization for students pursuing a career in the healthcare field. Their mission is to empower members to become leaders in the global health community, through education, collaboration, and experience.
This year during the International Leadership Conference, 35 teams from distinctive high schools and colleges from all over the USA, Canada, and China, came together for the Body Interact Virtual Patient Challenge.
The online competition was composed of two rounds: in the preliminary round teams had the chance to solve one wound care clinical scenario and the final broadcasted round, in which the top 15 teams fought for the first place, a cardiac clinical scenario was the challenge to be solved. Both clinical scenarios were basic and adapted to the level of knowledge of the participants.
As a reward, the top-3 winning teams won a Body Interact educational license that their school can use for 2 months for free.
Darssan Eswaramoorthi, a winning team member, mentions that “the visuals and all the graphics of the app are just amazing” and all the details (setting and timing, for example) enable him to understand “what doctors in real-life go through, whenever they treat and diagnose a patient”.
The health industry-approved curriculum and sponsored Competitive Events Program provides HOSA members with the best of both worlds — the best classroom education and the best student-led organizational opportunities, to become ready for college and their future careers. . There are 82 health industry-approved Competitive Events a HOSA member can explore for local competition in hopes of advancing to regional, state and international competition. The HOSA advisor uses the Competitive Events Program as one more tool to motivate and energize members to be the best they can be while seeking recognition from HOSA and the health industry sponsor. Being an Event Champion is a resume attention-getter!
Since its inception in 1976, HOSA has grown steadily reaching over 260,000 members through 54 chartered HOSA Associations in the United States, American Samoa, Canada, China, District of Columbia, Korea, and Puerto Rico.
During the second Virtual International Leadership Conference, HOSA is proud to partner with Body Interact to provide attendees with the latest in virtual technology. Participation in the Body Interact Virtual Patient Challenge provided students with a unique diagnostic and treatment experience for their virtual patients.
