The contexts and methods for communicating in healthcare and health professions education (HPE) profoundly affect how we understand information, relate to others, and construct our identities. Multimodal analysis provides a method for exploring how we communicate using multiple modes-e.g., language, gestures, images-in concert with each other and within specific contexts. In this paper, we demonstrate how multimodal analysis helps us investigate the ways our communication practices shape healthcare and HPE. We provide an overview of the theoretical underpinnings, traditions, and methodologies of multimodal analysis. Then, we illustrate how to design and conduct a study using one particular approach to multimodal analysis, multimodal (inter)action analysis, using examples from a study focused on clinical reasoning and patient documentation. Finally, we suggest how multimodal analysis can be used to address a variety of HPE topics and contexts, highlighting the unique contributions multimodal analysis can offer to our field.

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不仅仅是文字：多模态分析如何为卫生专业教育提供信息

在医疗保健和健康专业教育 (HPE) 中进行交流的背景和方法深刻地影响了我们理解信息、与他人联系以及构建我们的身份的方式。多模态分析提供了一种方法来探索我们如何使用多种模式（例如，语言、手势、图像）相互协调并在特定上下文中进行交流。在本文中，我们展示了多模态分析如何帮助我们调查我们的沟通实践塑造医疗保健和 HPE 的方式。我们概述了多模态分析的理论基础、传统和方法。然后，我们将说明如何使用一种特定的多模态分析方法，即多模态（交互）作用分析，使用侧重于临床推理和患者记录的研究中的示例来设计和进行研究。最后，