At pcom atleast, you have to do your core rotations at affiliated hospitals. Those you are side by side. For your electives you can go anywhere you want and if they aren't a huge teaching hospital you may be the only student on that service for that time period. So yeah, you are side by side so you can show all those MDs how smart you are and can come to the rescue for their musculoskeletal complaints making them regret their decision to attend an allopathic institution, ok so maybe that won't happen, but its worth a shot.