Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program

Our Residents

Amy Oyler, M.D.

Class of 2010
Undergraduate: Messiah College
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
E-mail: aoyle001@umaryland.edu

A little bit about myself...

Hi. I grew up in Shippensburg, PA, a small town about two hours from Baltimore. In high school, I became very interested in international health issues and decided to become a doctor. First, of course, I had to go to college, and decided on Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts school near Harrisburg, PA. While there, I spent a lot of time playing the bassoon and working for a group that raised student awareness on various global issues. I also had the opportunity to do some malaria research and spend two months living in a jungle and working at a hospital in Belize. For medical school, I headed south to the University of Virginia in beautiful Charlottesville. While going through my third year of medical school, I realized that med-peds was the best fit for me. I decided that this path would give me the breadth of training I needed to take care of both kids and adults in underserved settings, but also the depth to tackle the more complicated in-patient cases that I enjoyed working on. During my fourth year of medical school, I was again able to travel abroad, this time to Zambia. This sealed the deal – I loved working and traveling in Africa.

While applying to residency programs, I found Maryland to be a great fit for me. Not only did I love the med-peds residents I met on my interview day, I was excited about the international research interests in the program and the volume of HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease cases at the hospital. To make things even better, Baltimore is kind of close to home and has its own special quirkiness that makes it a fun place to live. Now I’m a third year resident and have had a great experience so far. A couple of the exciting opportunities I've had here include working with my med-peds colleagues on a quality improvement project to improve the transition of our more complex pediatric patients to our medicine clinic and writing a case report with one of the infectious disease attendings that has just been accepted to Transplant Infectious Disease. I'm most excited about my international health elective this October – I'll be traveling to Mali to work in a hospital with some of our faculty from the Center for Vaccine Development. I'm still a little unclear about life after residency, but I'm hoping to do a combination of international health and hospitalist work in medicine and pediatrics.

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