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Amy Bier, MD

Bridges Family Endowed Chief Resident
Medical school: Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

What does being a chief resident mean to you?
Being a chief resident means advocating for the current residents and acting as a bridge between residents and administration. It also means educating and fostering residents on their path through their training. Residency is an incredibly stressful and busy time for trainees, so offering support throughout the experience and working to make it as fruitful for each resident to reach their goals is paramount. Helping residents recognize and achieve their goals during their time here is so important to each individual’s future in medicine, it is an honor to be able to be a part of that.

What are you most looking forward to as chief?
I am looking forward to continuing working with the current (and incoming!) residents and working toward personal goals of improving my teaching skills as well as working for the first time as an attending of a team. A part of chief year that I am very excited for will be a global health trip to Rwanda and the incorporation of palliative care into the practice there.

What’s your favorite part of the UW internal medicine residency?
My favorite part of the UW IM residency is the camaraderie and friendliness of our program. I think it embodies a lot of what residency should be, residents supporting one another, learning together, and making lifelong friends and colleagues along the way. UW Madison has been such a wonderful place to train particularly because of the people. It is an institution that attracts altruistic and compassionate individuals who not only want to provide exceptional care to patients, but also foster a community of growth and change.