Pediatrics Residency
Welcome
Welcome to the Pediatric Residency program at Carilion Clinic! At Carilion Children’s, our patients and community are family, making the training of compassionate and competent pediatricians our top priority.
Anne Washofsky Program Director
Welcome to the Carilion Virginia Tech Pediatric Residency! Our program offers a robust clinical experience from a wide socioeconomic and cultural catchment area, while being situated in a beautiful mountain community in southwest Virginia. We are proud to prepare our residents for careers in primary care pediatrics as well as for fellowships across the disciplines. Our small program allows for individualized learning plans that are supported within our own medical community and contain the freedom to explore away electives when auditioning for or exploring fellowship opportunities. We are proud to have a family feel to our program while also offering excellent patient care experiences. Carilion Clinic is a world-class employer, and our faculty and residents benefit from numerous offerings such as our TEACH academy, where a vigorous curriculum supports our teaching skills and knowledge. We are proud of our alumni and current residents, and we are excited to continue building on to this legacy with our next class!
Dr. Borowicz, Associate Program Director
Dr. Violet Borowicz grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and is the oldest of four. She graduated medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2008. She subsequently completed her pediatric residency at Alfred I. du Pont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware in 2011 and her pediatric hematology oncology fellowship at Children's National Health System in Washington, DC in 2014.
Dr. Borowicz joined Carilion Children's in 2014 and provides pediatric hematology oncology and pediatric palliative medicine care to children in the Roanoke Valley. In 2019, she became an Associate Program Director for the VTC Pediatric Residency Program.
Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family and friends, is a huge hockey fan (go Caps!) and enjoys traveling, concerts, outdoor festivals, and theater. She and her family love living in Roanoke with so many fun activities to partake in both indoors and outdoors!
Dr. Drake, Associate Program Director
Dr. Austin Drake is originally from small-town Indiana. He attended Wabash College where he earned his BA in chemistry and then attended medical school at the University of Virginia. Upon entering medical school, he entered the US Army as well. He completed his internship and residency through the Army at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. There, he also served as the chief resident before his PCS (Army for “move”) to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. There he spent two years as a general pediatrician before being promoted to Major and serving as the Chief of the Primary Care Clinic for one year. After seven years in the military, he donned civilian attire after joining the Carilion Pediatrics team in the Summer of 2022. He currently serves as the Pediatric Residency Continuity Clinic Director and stepped into the role of Assistant Program Director the Summer of 2023.
He lives in the valley with his wife and two children. He enthusiastically loves to garden, and his family enjoys hiking, board games, tennis, and the children’s newfound hobby of roller skating.
Close Knit Team
We value the close-knit relationships between our residents, faculty and staff.
Safe and welcoming
We are dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming learning environment.
Wellbeing
We strive to create an environment that promotes and protects resident wellness
Our Values
As a program, we endeavor to uphold the mission of Carilion Clinic to improve the health of the communities we serve by training excellent pediatricians. Our goals align with Carilion Clinic’s core values of Collaboration, Courage, Commitment, Compassion and Curiosity.
- Collaboration
At Carilion Children’s, our patients are not treated by a doctor, but by an interdisciplinary team of experts who work together to provide the best possible care to reach the best possible outcomes. Our program develops pediatricians who value interprofessional collaboration and team-based patient care that includes patients and their families as part of the team.
- Courage
We train pediatricians who have the courage to practice in an ever-changing world, who have the fortitude to represent and protect their patients’ best interests, and who uphold our oath to “do no harm.”
- Commitment
We are committed to training residents who are not only knowledgeable about pediatric medicine, but who are skilled in practicing medicine in a humanistic and family-centered manner that recognizes the individual experiences, needs and beliefs of our patients. We are also committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning environment that respects the diverse backgrounds of our residents, faculty, and students, and we value the role that these experiences play in creating outstanding physicians.
- Compassion
As pediatric physicians, we practice with the utmost compassion for our patients and families. We are privileged to be entrusted with their care throughout their lives and, particularly, in some of their hardest times.
- Curiosity
We believe that curiosity is a key part of training successful pediatricians. We encourage our residents to embrace their curiosity in their daily care by looking at patients and problems holistically, and to nurture it further through taking advantage of the research opportunities available in the hospital and in partnership with Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech Partnership
Residents and fellows work closely with the students, medical educators, and research scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. This partnership leverages Virginia Tech’s world-class strength in basic sciences, bioinformatics and engineering with Carilion Clinic’s highly experienced medical staff and rich history in graduate medical education.
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