Family Medicine Residency

• Prepare Family Medicine physicians to care for the communities they serve
• Produce board-certified Family Medicine physicians who are capable of delivering full-scope family care in the region with a focus on underserved communities
• Produce physicians with attitudes and skills that promote team-based care and lifelong learning
• Facilitate discovery of an individual path within Family Medicine
• Collaboratively create individualized education plans that reflect residents’ goals
• Develop physician leaders with skills to lead within their practices, institutions and communities
• Promote physician well-being and thriving

• Program was founded in 1969
• First residency program within Carilion's multi-specialty institution
• ACGME accredited with Osteopathic Recognition
• Program Size: 10/10/10
• Large, tertiary referral center for over one million people
• Two Family Medicine residency clinic sites
• Specialty clinics including Sports Medicine, Gynecology, OMM, and Skin/Joint Procedures
• Three tracks and eight areas of concentration
• Affiliated with the VTC School of Medicine and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
• 100% board pass rate in past eight years
• Upon graduation, 70-80% of residents practice (or are employed in) outpatient medicine, 10% are employed as hospitalists, and 10-20% enter fellowships

• Urban, suburban, rural and immigrant populations
• Stages of life (pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents, adults, elderly)
• Socioeconomic backgrounds, including those with private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and self-pay

• Interns and residents will teach M3 and M4 students on all inpatient rotations.
• Second- and third-year residents will teach M3 and M4 students in outpatient Family Medicine centers.
• Multiple occasions to teach at academic conferences and local medical schools.
• Opportunities to present scholarly work at local, regional, state and national conferences.

• Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition
• Bradley Free Clinic
• Sports physicals for local schools and the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs
• Sideline game coverage for local high schools and colleges
• Fresh foods program at family medicine centers
• Compress and Shock Foundation
• International mission trips to Central America, affiliated with VCOM

We are part of the Family and Community Medicine Department, which consists of over 250 family physicians and advanced care practitioners with practices located throughout the region in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Outpatient Care

Residents and faculty members' clinical practices are located in one of our two NCQA-recognized Level 3 patient-centered medical home offices. At each center, we have a social worker, licensed professional counselor, psychologist, dietitian, on-site pharmacists and highly skilled nurses, many of whom are involved in research or specialty procedures.

Each center is equipped with on-site laboratory services, OB ultrasound, minor procedure rooms and an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) room. Each office and exam room has a computer for access to our electronic medical record system (Epic), digitized hospital X-rays and all library services.

We offer family-centered prenatal care, minor surgery and training in procedures such as colposcopy and ultrasonography. 

Inpatient Care

Our residents train at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Carilion Children’s Hospital and the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).