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Breaking Down Language Barriers in the Medical Profession : A project to improve communication between medical staff and patients who speak a different language This project started in 2001 and lasted 24 months.

The project aims at developing assessment tools for testing language competences for professional purposes in the field of medicine. With the increased mobility of medical professionals on the one hand and rising competitiveness on the European market on the other hand a growing demand for formal confirmation of the linguistic skills in the health sector is observed. The main rationale behind the ...