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[tutor_dashboard_password_reset]The topic is yours; the method is where reviews stall. A question framed too broadly buries you in thousands of records, a search you cannot reproduce is a search a reviewer will not trust, and a review that reports against none of the PRISMA items is sent back before the findings are read. From the Global South, few scholars are ever shown the method end to end. Your coach walks it with you, on your own review.
One coach, hands-on · Weekly live sessions, up to an hour each · Built for African Master's, PhD and early-career scholars
A method is acquired by doing it under guidance, not by watching. You can read about PICO, PRISMA and risk-of-bias appraisal and still stall when thousands of records and a real review are in front of you. Coaching is where the method becomes yours: you run each step on your own review, your coach gives close feedback in the moment, and each week adds another skill the review depends on, from framing the question and registering the protocol to a reproducible search, transparent screening, appraisal, synthesis and PRISMA reporting. Open any pillar below to see how it moves your review forward.
Every module follows the same learning loop. The coach demonstrates the step, you do it yourself on your own review, and you are corrected and checked until it is automatic. You never simply watch a video alone and hope it sticks.
Why this matters: A review step you do not perform yourself is a step you cannot repeat for the next review. Doing it yourself is what makes it yours.
Across the coaching: this doing-it-yourself loop runs through all eight modules, from framing the question to a PRISMA-reported review.
See the eight modulesYou work with one coach who stays with you for the whole engagement. They come to know your review, your field and your evidence base, so the guidance is specific to you rather than generic advice repeated to a room.
Why this matters: Continuity compounds. A coach who already knows your review can go straight to what matters, week after week.
Note: your coach never replaces your supervisor or co-authors. They work alongside them, so the review you submit is already sharper.
See the eight modulesYou practise every step on the document that matters, your own review, or on AOSARS' practice review if you are equipping ahead of your own review. The protocol you write, the search you run, the screening you do and the synthesis you build are all on real work.
Why this matters: A step applied to your own review turns into review progress the same week, not abstract knowledge you still have to transfer.
The bright line: you drive the work throughout. The coach guides and corrects, but never writes or submits your review for you.
See the eight modulesBecause the coach reviews your own work, you are corrected the instant a step slips, not weeks later. A review question that is too broad, a search that misses a database, an appraisal that overlooks a bias, all fixed while you are still in the work.
Why this matters: Correction in the moment is the fastest way to build a skill. You do not carry the mistake into the submission.
How it lands: you leave each session with three concrete things to do, so the correction turns straight into your next week of work.
See the eight modulesMost scholars are doing this around teaching, work or family. The coaching is built for exactly that. The hands-on practice happens in your own working days, and the one hour with your coach is reserved for substantive work on what you already did, never for catching up.
Why this matters: An hour a week becomes a review submitted, because the rhythm respects the little time a working, teaching or caring scholar can spare.
Your week, mapped: the switcher further down the page walks through each day, from your practice to your sixty-minute hour.
See the eight modulesThe review skills you build in coaching do not expire when this review is finished. Built once, they carry you through the revisions, and through every review you ever run after it.
Why this matters: You are not renting help for one review. You are building a craft that serves every review you ever run.
See the packages: Compare the three coaching packages
See the eight modulesCoaching builds the systematic review method and the tool fluency into you, so you can run the work yourself, on this review and every evidence synthesis you do after it. You stay the author throughout, and the skills stay with you for good.
Every module follows the same loop: the coach demonstrates the technique, you practise it on your own review, and you are corrected until it is automatic. Together they carry you from framing the review question to a PRISMA-reported review ready to publish. The path below moves on its own from 01 to 08; hover the card or use the pause button to take your time, or select any step to jump.
Your journey, 01 to 8
Most scholars juggle a review with teaching, work and family, so coaching has to fit a real week. The hands-on work happens in your own working days, where you practise the step and the method on your own review. The hour with your coach is reserved for substantive work on what you already did, never for catching up. Here is what each day looks like.
The first two days are spent doing the thing you and your coach worked through in the session: refine the inclusion and exclusion criteria you agreed, translate a search string to another database, redo the screening on a batch of records, or tidy the extraction table you built together.
This is the smallest, most achievable kind of progress: applying a step you have just been shown, on the review that matters. Most scholars find these the most productive days of the week.
Now the harder practice. You push into new territory: draft the protocol to the PRISMA-P items, build and translate a Boolean search across databases, or run the risk-of-bias appraisal on your included studies, using the process you are building, on your own review or a set exercise.
This is where the review feels lonely; you sit with the method until it makes sense. Even imperfect drafts are better than none, and your coach will sharpen what you wrote.
You send your coach what you practised this week: the protocol you drafted, the search strings you built, the batch you screened, or the extraction table you filled on your own review.
You add two or three specific questions, the places the step did not click. Sending it by Day 5 gives your coach two full working days to review your practice before you meet, and that is what makes the session substantive.
Behind the scenes, your coach goes through what you practised: noting where the step slipped, which part to demonstrate again, and the hands-on work to do with you tomorrow, the search string to re-run, the appraisal to correct, the flow diagram to fix.
You are not idle on Day 6. You are reading, practising or resting. But the substantive coaching work for the week is already under way on what you practised.
You arrive with your practice already reviewed, so the hour is substantive from the first minute. You work the step together: refine the search, run the screening, sharpen the appraisal or build the synthesis, while the coach guides and you drive.
You leave with three concrete things to practise for the coming week, so the momentum carries straight into your next working days.
Within five working days of your session, a written summary of the fixes follows, so nothing from the hour is lost and you can act on it in your own time.
That summary, plus your three practice tasks, is what turns one live hour into a full week of forward motion, and it repeats, week after week, until your review is finished.
Plays through on its own. Hover to pause, or click any day to jump.
A view of one coaching week. The practice happens in your own review days, and your live hour is reserved for substantive, hands-on work.
Every session runs the same way, so you always know what to expect and how to prepare.
Coaching builds the systematic review method and the digital literacy your review depends on, into you. These are the skills you walk away able to use yourself, on this review and every evidence synthesis you carry out after it.
Turn a broad interest into an answerable systematic, scoping, rapid or narrative review question, with the scope and eligibility criteria that govern the whole review set in advance.
Draft an a-priori protocol to the PRISMA-P items and register it on PROSPERO or an equivalent route, so your method is fixed before the search and protected from later bias.
Select the right databases and grey literature, build and translate Boolean strings, and record every string, source and date, so your search is reproducible and reportable line by line.
Apply your criteria consistently, run dual title, abstract and full-text screening, record every exclusion reason, and produce the PRISMA flow diagram from thousands of records to the studies you keep.
Assess risk of bias with the right tool, weigh certainty in the evidence, and synthesise it narratively, thematically or with meta-analysis basics where the data allow, without over-claiming.
Write the review against all 27 PRISMA items ready for a credible journal, and use the AI assistant for triage and synthesis with verification built in, so no fabricated citation ever enters your review.
All three are built on the same one-to-one, hands-on systematic review skills coaching. They differ in how many of the eight modules they coach live and what comes with them: the foundations package coaches modules 01 to 04, from framing the review question to screening studies to a PRISMA flow; the middle package adds live coaching on modules 05 to 06, appraisal and synthesis, plus six months of e-learning access to modules 01 to 06; and the top package adds live coaching on modules 07 to 08, PRISMA reporting, publishing and the AI assistant, the complete eight-module set, plus six months of e-learning access to all eight modules and a live, scholar-executed protocol registration. You pay to enrol, then book your weekly sessions. Most scholars choose the middle option.
Live one-to-one coaching on the first four modules, from sharp framing of your review to strategic sourcing of your reference materials and rigorous screening of the studies. You do the work and own every output; we coach the skill.
Live one-to-one coaching across all ten modules, from sharp framing of the question and strategic sourcing of your reference materials to citing, formatting, carrying out the review and writing it up for publication. You do the work and own every output; we coach the skill.
Everything in Package 2, plus peer-reviewer-style feedback on your own completed review draft: your coach reads it the way a journal reviewer would, marks what an editor would challenge, and rehearses your response to those comments with you. You own every decision, and you keep six months of e-learning access to all ten modules.
Two low-pressure ways to explore before you enrol: ask us to call you back on WhatsApp at a time that suits you, or book a fit call to talk it through and review your review question and your search plan together. Neither commits you to anything.
Leave your details and the time that suits you. We call you on WhatsApp, so it costs you nothing.
Pick a slot yourself on our calendar and we meet by video. We can talk it through and, if you like, review your work together.
The questions scholars ask most before enrolling on the review coaching. If yours is not here, ask before you pay.
We answer every enquiry personally, usually within a day, before you commit to anything.
It is one-to-one coaching. You work with a coach who, in weekly live one-to-one sessions across the engagement, demonstrates each step of the systematic review method and guides you hands-on through the question, the protocol, the search, the screening, the appraisal and the synthesis while you do the work yourself. That is different from our self-paced courses, which teach the same method as structured modules you study alone. Coaching is the higher-touch, higher-value option for applying the steps to your own review; the courses are the lower-cost way to build the basics. Many scholars use both, in sequence.
It is built for both. The eight modules carry you across the full method, framing the question and registering the protocol, a reproducible search, dual screening and the PRISMA flow, risk-of-bias appraisal, extraction and synthesis, and PRISMA reporting. Whether you arrive with a topic still taking shape or a review half run, the coaching meets your work where it is and moves it forward from there, and the top package coaches the complete eight-module method through to PRISMA reporting and publishing, with you authoring and owning every output.
No, and that is the bright line. Your coach explains each standard, reviews your own work and corrects it in real time, but you make every inclusion decision, you appraise every study, and you write every line yourself. The coaching builds your skill and confidence; it never ghostwrites a review or runs the screening on your behalf. That is precisely what keeps the review, and the credit, honestly yours, and what lets you defend it to an examiner or a reviewer.
All of them. The method spine is the same, and your coach helps you choose and run the review type that fits your question: systematic, scoping, rapid, narrative or a qualitative evidence synthesis. Scoping and qualitative synthesis are treated as first-class here, not as a lesser cousin of meta-analysis, so social scientists and health scientists alike are fully served. You choose the frame, PICO, PEO, SPIDER or PCC, and the synthesis, narrative, thematic or the basics of meta-analysis, that your evidence supports.
No. If you already have a topic, a protocol or a review in progress, you are welcome to bring it in. If you do not have one yet, you work through an AOSARS practice topic instead, covering the identical question-framing, search, screening, appraisal and synthesis ground. You need only a stable internet connection, a laptop or desktop computer, a working email and a few protected hours each week.
You practise through the week on your own review, refining the criteria, translating a search string, screening a batch of records or filling the extraction table, then send your work and two or three specific questions by Day 5. You meet your coach for one live hour, up to sixty minutes on video, booked through Calendly, to work the step together. Because your coach has reviewed your practice beforehand, the hour is substantive from the first minute. You leave with three things to practise, and a written summary of the fixes follows within five working days.
Carefully, and always tool-agnostically. A dedicated module teaches you to drive the AI assistant on the jobs it genuinely helps with, drafting and translating search strings, de-duplicating and pre-sorting records for triage, and clustering themes during synthesis, with the verification guardrail attached to each. You open and confirm every source yourself, you never let a citation the assistant produced into your review without checking it exists and says what is claimed, you keep the search reproducible and human-verified, and you disclose the assistance as method. Verification is itself a taught skill, not an afterthought, and every inclusion and appraisal judgement stays yours.
You enrol through secure checkout and pay in your local currency, by card, bank transfer or mobile money where it is supported. Payment confirms your place, and we then email you instructions for booking your weekly sessions. If you are unsure which package fits before you pay, email your situation to info@aosars.com or use the no-commitment options above.
Enrol today and turn a daunting systematic review into a method you can run step by step, one live hour a week, on your own work.
One coach, hands-on. Weekly live sessions, up to an hour each. Pay in your local currency on mobile money, card or bank transfer.
