Explain how training in your degree at Tufts will further your career goals.

This is an admission essay for a Tufts University Masters Program. The particular program I am applying for is, the Masters in Biomedical Sciences and Masters in Business Administration joint program (MBS-MBA). I am asked to explain how training in your degree at Tufts will further your career goals.

My ultimate career goal is to become a hospital administrator, particularly a Chief Medical Officer. So, I will need the science background from this masters program to help provide me with the fundamentals necessary to gain entrance into medical school. The business background that I will receive from the MBA program will equip me with the business-related knowledge it takes to run a hospital.

It would be helpful to mention something in the essay about the stellar Public Health program that the university offers, that I would plan to take advantage of, and how that would help me with being a better doctor and ultimately a better hospital administrator.

Lastly, I would LOVE if “The Four Agreements” by Miguel Angel Ruiz could be worked into the essay, that would serve as my recipe for becoming a great doctor:
1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.