PackCheck AI The AI Travel Prompt Every Medical Affairs Pro Needs

This all started with a forgotten pair of shoes.

It was 8 p.m. at the Marriott in Columbus, Ohio. My AI nerd friend, Vivek Mukhatyar, had just flown in from Boston for an important presentation to a surgeon and his staff at Ohio State, a meeting squeezed neatly between surgical cases.

He opened his suitcase to get ready for the next morning.
Slides? ✔️
Laptop? ✔️
Shoes? ❌

He forgot his dress shoes! Vivek was an old-school MSL: suit, tie, polished shoes, the whole nine. That missing pair of shoes felt like a disaster.

“I’ll never forget it,” he said later. “I was so stressed.” Cue the panic.

He checked the time. Most stores were closing. Luckily, there was a Target within walking distance. Ten minutes later, he was pacing the men’s shoe aisle, hunting for black dress shoes that didn’t squeak. He found a pair that would be good enough to survive the next day’s meeting.

The presentation went fine. But the stress of that night? Unforgettable.

All Medical Affairs pros can relate. That quiet dread of having forgotten something important. You double-check, triple-check, and still don’t feel sure.

Vivek and I are tackling AI literacy in Medical Affairs one fun prompt at a time. Thinking of you, standing in a hotel room, suitcase open, feeling the dread of having forgotten something important, sparked the idea for our first 5-min AI for Medical Affairs hack. Learn more about this initiative below. But first, meet PackCheck AI, the AI travel prompt that every Medical Affairs pro needs. 

It only takes a few minutes and it will help you feel confident that you’re ready for your next trip!

Get 8 Work Travel Tips for MSLs HERE

PackCheck AI: The AI Travel Prompt Every Medical Affairs Pro Needs

PackCheck AI is your smart-but-sarcastic travel assistant, designed to help Medical Affairs not forget important items and avoid emergency runs to target or DoorDashing a tie. It reviews what you packed and checks the weather so you can be 100% ready.

It’s super easy to use:

1. Upload a photo of your suitcase or paste your packing list into your favorite AI tool.

2. Use this prompt:

“You’re my smart-but-sarcastic field-travel assistant. Look at this photo or packing list and tell me what I probably forgot based on my [trip type, length, and destination]. Check the weather for that location and tell me if I need to add or remove anything. Keep it short, clever, and practical.”

3. Add your trip type, length, and destination city: for example, “3-day dermatology congress in Chicago” or “1-day KOL visit in Phoenix.” Then click run.

In seconds, it gives you a witty, useful list of what you probably forgot and what you’ll wish you packed once you check the forecast.

Because no one wants to sprint through Target before a big presentation.

Here’s how PackCheck AI did for my upcoming AI training in Florida:

And here’s what PackCheck AI recommended. Let me know what you think!

5-Min AI for Medical Affairs

PackCheck AI is part of our 5-Min AI for Medical Affairs, a monthly experiment to help Medical Affairs professionals build AI skills the easy way.

We love AI and want everyone else to love it as much as we do. AI should feel approachable, fast, and even fun. And that’s our mission! Every month, we share a new five-minute AI hack that connects directly to the day-to-day work of Medical Affairs professionals. No jargon. No overwhelm. Just smart, useful experiments that make you better at what you already do.

Because when AI feels practical, people actually use it and that’s where the magic happens.

Conclusion: No More Forgetting Stuff & Slick AI Skills

That night in Columbus was pure stress for Vivek, but it captured a universal truth about Medical Affairs: everyone is juggling a gazillion details.

If AI can take one small piece of that load, like reminding us to pack our shoes, that’s amazing.

That’s the goal of the 5-Min AI for Medical Affairs series: not to turn everyone into prompt engineers, but to show that AI can solve real-world problems in ways that make us laugh, learn, and save a little sanity along the way.

Here’s another fun prompt to help you have fun learning AI.

Want Your Team to Love AI Too?

If your Medical Affairs team is still standing on the AI sidelines, now’s the time to start.
I help teams build confidence and real capability with hands-on, no-hype AI training, the kind that fits right into how you already work. Get in touch if you want to bring this to your team. 

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