User talk:Ebmdoc4u

Regarding your changes to the UT southwestern page:

I dispute that you are working toward the "neutrality and honesty". It is very clear that you are attempting to deflate the reputation of the university. I suspect you may be affiliated with another biomedical institution in the UT system. However, given your point on Dr. Gilman, I am willing to make some compromises to effect an accurate reflection on UTSW.

The "leading biomedical research institution" is valid. It's not 3rd or 4th. In terms of biomedical research funding, no other biomedical institution in the UT system has the research expenditure that UT Southwestern does. However, given that comparisons don't much matter, I'm willing to eliminate the language of leading altogether. and go with something more neutral.

As far as Gilman's retirement. He did retire as Dean of Southwestern Medical School, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. However, according to that page he remains emeritus faculty. He remains involved as a member of the faculty and maintains an office on campus. I propose that we leave your word "retirement" which is accurate, but also leave in that the university has 5 nobel laureates, 4 active, which is ALSO accurate.

The last cited information you continue to remove is the statement that admission to the medical school is "competitive". Admission is not competitive "as any medical school". According to the cited AAMC site in the article,, the UTSW GPA and MCAT average is nearly a full SD above national average matriculant stats. That means UTSW students typically more competitive than around 70% of other medical schools in the country. i don't disagree that all medical schools are competitive, but I think these facts qualify as "highly competitive". Please stop changing this well-supported statement. Let's just leave it at that. Just saying admissions is "highly competitive" doesn't necessarily compare to other schools. It just states a fact. It is highly competitive.

I hope these changes are satisfactory. Please look over the revision I've made. I'm happy to consider valid changes. However if you continue to remove valid, cited information, I will likewise escalate the dispute according to Wikipedia's Dispute Resolution Policy.

Warmly, 99.7.225.212 (talk) 23:37, 3 January 2012 (UTC)