After completing this course, the student will
- understand the basic concepts, principles and methods of epidemiologic research
- be able to assess population health and associated factors by calculating and interpreting various measures of occurrence and associations
- recognize the main descriptive and analytic epidemiologic study designs (cross-sectional, cohort, case-control and clinical trial approaches)
- be able to critically evaluate epidemiologic literature, including assessing the possibility of bias, confounding and other limitations in a study.

Further changes are possible