1. To understand the epidemiologic study of medical devices.
2. To understand what medical devices are and what areas of study are possible.
3. To understand the challenges of medical device epidemiologic study.

Performance objectives

1. To be able to develop a research question on medical device epidemiology.
2. To be able to suggest new sources of data for medical device epidemiology.
3. Describe the difficulties and challenges in the epidemiologic study of medical devices.
4. Describe 3 or 4 possible areas of disease research that would be linked to medical device epidemiology.