NEWS

Future U - your resource for all things leadership! Future U is an e-Guide filled with activities, chapter ideas, helpful hints, and valuable tools that will set you up to facilitate the best possible HOSA experience this year. 

The top medical officer for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps kicked off the 2013 HOSA Washington Leadership Academy on September 21 in Crystal City, Virginia with nearly 200 state officers, advisors and guests.  Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, spoke about Navy Medicine's mission to provide battlefield medicine, at sea medicine, wounded warrior care, patient care, research and development and humanitarian assistance – and thanking those young people for wanting to be future health professionals.

HOSA-Future Health Professionals is proud to launch the new Greek letters for chapter use.

In an effort to facilitate on-campus marketing if Greek life is prevalent, the HOSA, Inc. Board of Directors approved the use of Gamma Eta Rho to be the Greek letters representing the postsecondary/collegiate division of HOSA-Future Health Professionals.

The letters were chosen for the casual observer (or secondary HOSA member who is unfamiliar to Greek life) to easily identify the letters as ours as the Greek letters resemble FHP (future health professionals). 

The HOSA Affiliation System is now ready to affiliate members for the 2013-2014 membership year. As you begin the process we want to make you aware of changes we have made in the affiliation process. When you get to the screen to add members you will be presented with a list of the members that were in your chapter from the 2012-2013 membership year. If you have students that will be members again, you will be able to place a check in the box beside their name and move them over for affiliation this year. 
 

HOSA-Future Health Professionals was proud to announce the 2014 National Leadership Conference theme during the 2013 NLC.

HOSA: The Future Starts Now!

The 2013 National Leadership Conference was an exciting time for the leadership of HOSA-Future Health Professionals. On Tuesday evening June 25, twenty-five National Officer Applicants, tested and passed the National Officer Candidate exam and were given interview times. On Wednesday the Nominating Committee interviewed all 25 applicants and slated them for office. On Thursday morning all of the candidates attended the Meet the Candidates Breakfast and the Voting Delegates had the opportunity to get to know the candidates better.

 
HOSA-Future Health Professionals Announces
2013 Interns in the Office of the Surgeon General
 
HOSA—Future Health Professionals is pleased to announce, along with the Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps (OCVMRC) in the Office of the Surgeon General, the 2013 HOSA-OSG Interns. 

 
 It is my pleasure to announce a unique opportunity for HOSA Members and Advisors to create a two-minute video that we can share at the 36th Annual National Leadership Conference in June. 
 
• HOSA Members—your two-minute video should describe how HOSA and Health Science are preparing you to be a future health professional. The two-minute video can feature no more than three members. 
 

The past several years we have developed an extraordinary partnership with the Medical Reserve Corps and the Office of the Surgeon General.  The HOSA Internships in the Office of the Surgeon General have provided HOSA members and advisors with unique learning experiences and connections.  We have a new opportunity for HOSA members (ages 12 to 17) who are interested in community preparedness in general and youth preparedness in particular.  Several HOSA chapters have participated in the Medical Reserve Corps Partnership, CERT Skills, and Public Health.  A growing percentage of HOSA chapters