Founder Gordon Hamilton Location Nottingham Product Online database | Type Non Profit Area served Medical students Key people Alexa Chandler | |
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The Electives Network is a non profit organisation helping medical students all over the world plan their medical Elective (medical). The company was founded in 2001 by doctor Gordon Hamilton to help healthcare students organise their medical elective placements. He saw a need for a centralised on-line database, where healthcare students across the world would be able to access up-to-date and comprehensive information on placements. The Electives Network now serves healthcare students across the world, providing details of elective placements at over 2500 hospitals in 150 countries. Medical students from the following countries can access The Electives Network service for free: the UK (via The Medical Defence Union); Germany (via MLP AG), Australia (via MDA National); and New Zealand (via MAS). Students in other countries wishing to access the service can do so by taking out a paid subscription.