2019 AAMC residency report: # of work and volunteer experiences

[member9913]

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Was looking at one of the tables in this report and came across the following figure

Here the number of work experiences for a 90th percentile applicant for anesthesiology is 6 and number of volunteer experiences is 11.

A little confused as to what this means. Are these work and volunteer experiences during the time you were in medical school? How does one obtain so many positions? If that's the case, I think I'm pretty screwed since I've not formally joined any volunteer organizations or worked any jobs during med school...

 

[zero0]

Before med school counts.

 

[efle]

People include lots of minor entries like summer gigs in college or volunteer events that were only a couple of weekends. The charting outcomes document has some figures that show match rate is pretty flat across these variables:

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Charting-Outcomes-in-the-Match-2018-Seniors.pdf#page=30