title: Elective
text: # Elective
  
  Elective may refer to:
  
  * Choice, the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them
  * Elective course in education
     * Elective (medical), a period of study forming part of a medical degree
  * In medical procedures, planned interventions, as opposed to emergency care
     * Elective surgery
  * An adjective for election
     * Elective monarchy, a monarchy ruled by an elected monarch, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy
  