Learn Healthcare System Understanding and Management Skills Through 'Experience'

## Press Release Information
Title: Learn Healthcare System Understanding and Management Skills Through 'Experience'
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Company Name: Medical Management & Policy Research Institute Co., Ltd.
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Body (first 8000 characters): Board game appearance

Medical Management & Policy Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Representative Director: Tsubasa Kambe) has developed "Let's Build a Hospital," a board game-style educational material that allows participants to experientially learn both healthcare system understanding and on-site management skills.

This material is an experiential educational tool that fosters decision-making abilities by allowing participants to become hospital managers and simulate the operation of a medical institution.

■ Why is it necessary to change "how we learn" now?

The environment surrounding medical institutions is undergoing significant changes, and on-site decision-making has become more crucial than ever due to:

System reforms
Personnel shortages
Deteriorating business environment

On the other hand, it is said that the retention rate of knowledge in traditional lecture-style learning remains around 5%, posing a challenge that "knowing" alone is not enough to be effective in the field.

■ Learning changes through experience (towards approximately 75% retention)

This material adopts a board game format, realizing "experiential learning" where participants learn by making actual decisions.

Experiential learning is generally expected to achieve about 75% learning retention, aiming to:

👉 Not just "understand" knowledge
👉 But to make it "usable" as an action

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■ The difficulty of medical management realistically reproduced

This material reflects the actual management structure of medical institutions, reproducing challenges such as:

Continuous costs like personnel and equipment expenses
Revenue and expenditure structures where profitability is not easy
The need for staff turnover and recruitment

Players face decisions such as:

👉 Prioritizing profit
👉 Retaining personnel
👉 Making investments

■ People, Goods, Money, Information × Strategy × Mission

Players make decisions based on limited management resources:

Whether to increase personnel
Whether to invest in equipment
Whether to prioritize finances

These decisions are directly linked to:

👉 Strategy
👉 Mission

And shape the direction of the medical institution.

■ Designed so that "you can't win without collaboration"

In this game, the winning condition is to "collectively achieve":

Responding to approximately 80% of regional needs
Accepting approximately 80% of potential patients

Players can experientially understand the reality that:

👉 Healthcare cannot be sustained by a single hospital alone
👉 Collaboration among medical institutions is essential

■ Anticipated application scenarios

Staff training at medical institutions
Classes and exercises at medical education institutions
Human resource development training at medical-related companies
Regional medical training at local governments
Regional medical collaboration workshops
Interprofessional education (IPE)
Medical literacy education for junior and senior high school students

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■ Future developments

This initiative is not limited to providing teaching materials but aims to expand "learning opportunities that connect the healthcare system and the field."

Moving forward, while promoting the development of training and workshops utilizing this material in collaboration with medical institutions, educational institutions, local governments, companies, etc., we will also promote collaboration with partners who resonate with these efforts and wish to participate in creating learning opportunities together.

On May 17, 2026, the 1st Board Game "Let's Build a Hospital" Study Group will be held, and a system will be put in place to allow more people to utilize it thereafter.

https://hospital-board-game01.peatix.com/view

■ Product Overview

Product Name: Let's Build a Hospital
Content: Hospital management simulation board game
Target: Medical professionals, medical students, educational institutions, etc.

■ Company Profile

Company Name: Medical Management & Policy Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Representative: Tsubasa Kambe, Representative Director (Clinical Laboratory Technologist)
Location: 5-30-10 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Business Activities: Medical human resource development, educational training, etc.

■ Contact for this matter

Medical Management & Policy Research Institute Co., Ltd.
(Project Leader) Tsubasa Kambe
URL: https://hospital-board-game.jp/
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