Carilion's mission of Improving the health of the communities it serves is well-founded in our Medical Education Department. Good health is key to a region's vitality and quality of life. Through advanced training and education of our resident physicians, we are carrying that mission to every hometown and household.

Carilion's two major teaching facilities, Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, serve as the medical center for western Virginia. Nationally and regionally recognized physicians serve on our full-time medical education faculty. And at over 75 strong, the faculty is ensuring that the region has access to a pool of excellent doctors. With 150 residents in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, surgery, psychiatry, orthopedics and transitional programs, Carilion is finding better ways to care for its communities.

Overall, Carilion provides services for the metropolitan Roanoke population of 250,000 and has a referral area of one million people. Among its services, Carilion provides a regional cancer center; cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgery programs; Level I Trauma Center; neuro-trauma, medical, cardiac and cardiac surgery intensive care units; neonatal intensive care; perinatology; pediatric intensive care; and numerous ambulatory departments.