Graduate Medical Education

A Drupal Website for Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Our recent web development project for the Graduate Medical Education (GME) program at Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech School of Medicine focused on a strategic consolidation and technical enhancement of their online presence. Previously, the GME program resided on the main Carilion Clinic website, while individual residency and fellowship programs were scattered across disparate platforms, including various Wix microsites and separate domains. This fragmented approach hindered discoverability and marketing efforts.

Our primary objective was to centralize all GME web content onto a single, unified platform. This strategic move was designed to maximize Search Engine Optimization (SEO), leveraging the cumulative authority of consolidated content. By creating a single source of truth, we established a powerful hub for recruiting prospective students nationally and internationally, significantly simplifying future targeted advertising campaigns.

Within Drupal, we engineered a series of specialized, templated blocks. These versatile blocks serve various purposes, from a dedicated "Contact Us" block to dynamic accordion blocks for organizing information. This approach not only streamlined content creation but also ensured consistency and maintainability across the entire GME web ecosystem.

My Roles

• Project Lead
• UI/UX (user flows, wireframes)
• Prototyping (Figma)
• Front-end Development (HTML templating, CSS)
• Back-end Drupal Config (site building, permissions, content types, etc.)
• Facilitating Deployment with DevOps Team
• Visual QA and Cross Browser Testing
• Training stakeholders and site editors

Key Takeaways

This website was a fun challenge and stretched us in new ways and hope to continue to evolve and iterate on this project as new needs arise.

Visit the live website, here!