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… of the programme • Define standards and criteria • Compare results to criteria • Analyse evaluation data • Create evaluation report 16| EducationMatters ‘In the globalised world of today, a medical doctor should be capable of communicating with foreign patients, a biomedical scientist of cooperating with, let’s say, a lab in Asia, and a healthcare manager needs to possess intercultural management skills,’ says Anja Krumeich, chair of the Platform Internationalisation. After two years of … time.’ Krumeich agrees. ‘And this holds true for every layer of our organisation,’ she adds. ‘Becoming truly international has an effect on virtually everything we do; from translating the Board of Examiners’ documents into English, to recognizing foreign degrees, to becoming aware of the cultural assumptions underlying Problem Based Learning, to name but a few.’ INTERNATIONALISATION HAS TO BECOME part of our DNA ‘Both international and Dutch students realise that we live in a glo- balised world … having worked as the dean’s secretary, she left for another job, only to return a few years later. ‘I became the head of the office of inter- national relations at the medical faculty,’ she says. ‘There, I was responsible for setting up a student exchange pro- gramme and for running the secreta riat for an international network of community-oriented educational institutions for health sciences. I worked with a small group of people who were all very enthusiastic about internationalisation. It …