Dr. Rakowsky earned her medical degree at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She then completed her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. During her time there, she was awarded the Outstanding Resident Teaching Award and inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
She is a member of Massachusetts Medical Society, American College of Physicians, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, and Massachusetts Medical Society.