This PhD course is highly relevant for students working with topics related to antimicrobial resistance. 

The course will provide detailed insight and knowledge of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. The objectives will include understanding of principles regarding antibiotic resistance, methods for detection of resistance, clinical breakpoints, resistance epidemiology, mechanisms for resistance development/evolution and spread, drivers behind development of antimicrobial resistance, clinically important resistance mechanisms in bacteria, One Health perspectives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), concepts and challenges in drug discovery and alternative anti-infective strategies.

Students shall prepare individually by studying 15-20 selected peer reviewed scientific articles, which together account for about 100 000 words. These articles will be regular experimental studies and review articles covering the different aspects described above regarding antimicrobial resistance.

The students meet in a joint five-day gathering at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, campus Tromsø, to attend lectures, laboratory demonstrations with related theoretical instructions and engage in group work and case discussions.

Laboratory demonstrations include phenotypic methods to detect susceptibility to antimicrobial agent in bacteria. The students will also present and critically review one given article in a 20-minute (digital) lecture in the following weeks after the gathering at UiT.

• Full course description at uit.no