Lisa Caldon

Key takeaways

Lisa Caldon belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lisa Caldon to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lisa Caldon from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lisa J. M. Caldon (born 1968) is a British professor and clinical lecturer specialising in oncology. In her 20 year career, Caldon has published some 20 papers in the field of medicine. These have appeared in some of the top medical and peer-reviewed journals in Britain and abroad, including Medical Education, the European Journal of Cancer, the British Journal of Surgery, Patient Education and Counseling, Psycho-Oncology, Future Oncology, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and The Lancet Oncology. Caldon has worked at The University of Sheffield and with Cancer Research UK.

Career From August 2002 to October 2008, Caldon worked as a clinical lecturer at Cancer Research UK, teaching others about the psychosocial aspects of cancer. Since October 2010, she has worked as a clinical lecturer and senior registrar at Sheffield University. In 2016, Caldon collaborated with a team of medical specialists in publishing the fifth edition of Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, which was written to "deliver a concise and didactic account of the essential features of all common surgical disorders." Much of her work was in assessing breast cancer. Caldon is a member of the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons.

Publications Short-term safety outcomes of mastectomy and immediate implant-based breast reconstruction with and without mesh (iBRA): a multicentre, prospective cohort study (The Lancet Oncology, February 2019) Efficient development and usability testing of decision support interventions for older women with breast cancer (Patient Preference and Adherence, January 2019) Understanding older women’s decision making and coping in the context of breast cancer treatment (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, June 2015) The use of Titanium mesh (TiLOOP) in immediate breast reconstruction; low cost, low complications (European journal of surgical oncology: the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology, June 2015) The development of a decision support intervention for older women with a choice of surgery or primary endocrine therapy to treat breast cancer (Future Oncology, January 2015) The Information and decision support needs of older women (>75 yrs) facing treatment choices for breast cancer: A qualitative study (Psycho-Oncology, December 2014) Information Needs of Older Women Faced with a Choice of Primary Endocrine Therapy or Surgery for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Literature Review (Current Breast Cancer Reports, September 2014) Theory based analysis of the effects of decision aids for surgery in early stage breast cancer: a systematic review (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, September 2013) Increasing readiness to decide and strengthening behavioral intentions: Evaluating the impact of a web-based patient decision aid for breast cancer treatment options (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (Patient Education and Counseling, April 2012) Why do hospital mastectomy rates vary? Differences in the decision-making experiences of women with breast cancer (with co-author Sam Ahmedzai) (British Journal of Cancer, May 2011) Clinicians' concerns about decision support interventions for patients facing breast cancer surgery options: understanding the challenge of implementing shared decision-making (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (Health Expectations, October 2010) Consumers as researchers – innovative experiences in UK National Health Service Research (International IJC, August 2010) Changing trends in the decision-making preferences of women with early breast cancer (British Journal of Surgery, March 2008) What influences clinicians’ operative preferences for women with breast cancer? An application of the discrete choice experiment (European Journal of Cancer, August 2007) Case-mix fails to explain variation in mastectomy rates: management of screen-detected breast cancer in a UK region 1997-2003 (British Journal of Cancer, February 2005) Case-mix fails to explain variation in mastectomy rates: management of screen-detected breast cancer in a UK region 1997-2003 (British Journal of Cancer, January 2005) Selecting performance assessment methods (Medical Education, November 2002) Is insight important? Measuring the capacity to change (Medical Education, November 2002) Is insight important? measuring capacity to change performance. (Medical Education, January 2002) Changing patterns of surgery: The trent breast screening program 1997-2000 (European journal of cancer, September 2001)

References

External links Publications by Lisa Caldon at ResearchGate

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lisa Caldon

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lisa Caldon claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lisa Caldon before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lisa Caldon ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lisa Caldon

In research: Lisa Caldon appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lisa Caldon in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lisa Caldon is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1968 births, 20th-century British medical doctors, 21st-century British medical doctors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lisa Caldon outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study Lisa Caldon in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lisa Caldon?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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