Volunteering and working

[Guest]

I had read on the charting the outcomes that the average volunteer experience is 10 and work experience is ; are these necessary to match into neurosurgery or is the trifecta or step 1, research and Lors enough. Would it be enough to match into a mid tier if one had a 250 step one, a few pubs and good lors but no work  or volunteer experiences. 
THanks guys

[Guest]

When you fill out ERAS they tell you to put ANY extracurricular activity that wasn't research or paid under volunteer experience. So board member of a club, student government, basically any position held where you weren't paid or didn't get a paper/poster out of it is a "volunteer experience".

Once you count those up it's very easy to get to 10. No one cares either way, just show that you have been a leader at one point in your life in any capacity and you're fine.

[Guest]

does tutoring count?

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so every research experience that i dont get a pub out of can count as one volunteer experience?

[Guest]

are we supposed to be listing experiences from undergrad too? or just med school?

[Guest]

everything after undergrad unless you were a Rhodes scholar, NCAA athlete or anything that's actually impressive and universally recognized.