Congratulations! You are the newly-appointed chair of an academic neurology or pediatrics department. It’s time to recruit faculty to fulfill your tripartite mission of excellence in clinical medicine, education, and research. Luckily, using strategies learned at a recent contract negotiation workshop, you’ve secured a time machine as part of your startup package. Your master plan: recruit some of the greatest physicians of all time to propel your department to greatness!
But hurry, your opponent is the new chair at a competing department across town, and will be vying for the same luminaries with the help of her own department-funded time machine. (She must have attended the same workshop.)
In this hilarious two-player game, you will navigate the vagaries of academic medicine - facing scandals, staff shortages, and lazy emeritus professors. But master the right tools, and your department will triumph!
In more detail
In Endowed Chairs, players try to earn points in each of their three missions: clinical, research, and education.
Players use action cards in their hands to help them earn points or weaken their opponent's position. The most common way to earn points for one of their three missions is to recruit a great neurologist or neuroscientist from the job pool and assign her to that mission. Each of the 12 luminaries has a unique set of strength and weaknesses, so she may be worth more points in some missions than others.
Each turn consists of playing an action card or discarding unwanted action cards, and then drawing back up to five card from the draw pile. the game ends when there are no more action cards to be drawn from the draw pile. The player who has the most points in at least two of the three mission wins.