Current Reality of Beef Cattle Veterinary Practice in North America: A Systems Thinking Perspective

Dale M. Grotelueschen; Rebecca A. Funk; John T. Groves; Timothy J. Goldsmith; Brian Vander Ley

doi:10.1016/j.cvfa.2022.02.008

Current Reality of Beef Cattle Veterinary Practice in North America: A Systems Thinking Perspective

Dale M. Grotelueschen, Rebecca A. Funk, John T. Groves, Timothy J. Goldsmith, Brian Vander Ley

Veterinary Population Medicine

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Beef cattle veterinarians provide services to the increasingly complex beef industry system. Systems thinking offers pathways to better understand and communicate ranges of issues such as prevailing mental models, importance of match quality relative to clientele needs, and identification of leverage to better adapt and continually improve. Thinking in systems identifies and helps us to understand patterns or structures that are organized and interconnected that result in the outcomes observed and experienced in the practice of beef cattle veterinary medicine.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	317-333
Number of pages	17
Journal	Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cvfa.2022.02.008
State	Published - Jul 2022

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The authors wish to thank the 17 members of the VAST group who contributed their valuable perspectives through the “admiring the iceberg” exercises and advancement of causal loop diagrams in this article.

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Beef
Beef cattle
Cattle
Practice
System
Systems thinking
Veterinarian
Veterinary profession
Humans
Veterinary Medicine
North America
Veterinarians
Animals
Systems Analysis

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