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Epi-Ready Workshop Learning Objectives
Workshop Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
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Describe the desirable skills and knowledge available through a foodborne disease outbreak investigation and control team.
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Recognize a possible foodborne outbreak through reports to a notification/complaint system or pathogen-specific surveillance.
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Generate hypotheses about the source of an outbreak using information on causative agents, the implicated facility, the descriptive epidemiology of cases, and case interviews.
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Describe how the contributing factors in an outbreak are related to the causative agent, the suspect food, and food preparation setting.
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Explain terms used in epidemiology such as case-control and cohort study, relative risk, odds ratio, and measure of association.
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List important considerations in the collection and submission of clinical and food specimens to the laboratory.
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Identify ways to improve communications between members of the outbreak investigation team.
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