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Various issues

This article has a number of issues which need to be resolved to make it more in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

The main issue is that none of the article content is supported by citations to reliable sources. WP:V requires that article content be supported by citations so that it can be verified to accurately reflect what reliable sources (ideally secondary and independent sources). An external link to the school's official website isn't at all sufficient for this purpose, which means the unsourced content can be treated as personal knowledge or original research and removed at anytime. This is particulary true for any content about living persons.

The next big problem as that this article is not really divided into sections per MOS:LAYOUT, but basically is just one big lead section. Divding the article up into sections will make the article not only easier to read, but also easier to edit. The first section should be the MOS:LEAD and serve as a brief summary of the key points of the article; how the rest of the article is divided up can be determined through discussion or by looking at some FAs or GAs about similar types of schools.

Much of the WP:TONE of the article seems to WP:PROMOTIONAL for Wikipedia's purposes. There's quite a lot of WP:PUFFERY and MOS:OPED type of wording that simply is not appropriate per WP:NPOV. Wikipedia articles are written about subjects; they are not written for subjects to promote them or provide excessive details about them.

The "Notable physicians" section was way to long and basically a list of doctor names. Once again, this is not what such sections are intended to be for per WP:ALUMNI, WP:LSC, and WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The section should really only include the names of persons considered Wikipedia notable enough to either already have a stand-alone article about them already written or someday written; it should not include the names of anyone else. Another issue is the name of the section in that "Notable physicians" seems to imply being employed by the school, but not necessarily being a alumnus of the school; if the persons mentioned in this section are all alumni of the school, then the section name should probably be changed to "Notable alumni".

A quick look at the page history of the article shows it being edited by quite a number of IP accounts and other persons who might be connected to the school in some way. Anyone directly connected to the school (i.e., employee or management personel) shouldn't not really be directly editing the article at all, but should make edit requests on this talk page instead. Students or alumni also need to be careful to make sure that their edits are not contrary to relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and probably would be best to be WP:CAUTIOUS with respect to any major changes. Anyone being paid or otherwise compensated to edit the article by the school or its representatives needs to make sure they follow WP:PAID and declare their connection accordingly. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:48, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]