About Work the World

Work the World is a British company who specialise in arranging short-term elective placements for healthcare students from around the world. With over 10 years’ experience, we are now the largest and most respected elective organisation globally. 

In 2015 we arranged over 1,500 placements, for students from over 400 universities. We currently have more than 32 hospital partnership agreements across our programmes, with more added every year. We pride ourselves on developing sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with all government authorities, hospitals, clinics and local NGO’s.