Carilion Clinic- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, university-affiliated pediatrics program in Roanoke, Virginia, pairing Carilion Clinic's community-embedded clinical base with Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's basic-science and research infrastructure (Fralin Biomedical Research Institute). The program draws from a broad socioeconomic and cultural catchment area in southwest Virginia, emphasizing holistic, family-centered, humanistic care over high-acuity tertiary volume. It explicitly prepares residents for both primary care pediatrics and subspecialty fellowships, with individualized learning plans and away-elective flexibility supporting fellowship auditions, while research is framed as encouraged through the Virginia Tech partnership rather than mandated. Matching only six PGY1s per year, the program foregrounds a "family feel," close faculty-resident relationships, wellness, and interprofessional collaboration as core identity markers.