1Characterize different epidemiological study designs, including experimental studies, clinical trials, and commonly used observational studies such as cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies.

2Interpret basic epidemiologic measures, including prevalence and incidence measures for disease occurrence and ratio and difference measures for association.

3Implement causal thinking by assessing potential bias, confounding and random error.

4Understand basic terminology of infectious disease epidemiology.

5Understand methods of disease surveillance and their corresponding strengths and weaknesses

6Describe the steps in an outbreak investigation.

7Define sensitivity, specificity, false positive fraction and false negative fraction and use them to compare discriminative performance of different diagnostic tests.

8Interpret numeric results commonly presented in journal articles such as odds ratio, 95% CI, and p-value.

9Critically appraise evidence presented in clinical studies and scientific research articles.