Trainee Second Lieutenant
Gülhane Military Medical Academy
01.07.2011 – 01.04.2012
Uzm. Dr. Derya CAN
General Practitioner
General Staff Headquarters, 49th Motorized Infantry Brigade Clinic
01.05.2012 – 01.07.2014
Specialization Training in Emergency Medicine
Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Specialty Training
01.08.2014 – 01.01.2019
Specialist Physician – Emergency Department
Ministry of Health, Çubuk Halil Şıvgın State Hospital, Emergency Department
01.02.2019 – 01.04.2022
GETAT Outpatient Clinic
Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, GETAT Outpatient Clinic
01.02.2019 – 30.06.2022
Private Practice of Specialist Dr. Derya CAN
As of June 30, 2022, after resigning at the rank of Major, Dr. Derya CAN started accepting patients in her own private practice and continues to do so.
Born in Istanbul, she completed her primary and secondary education in Istanbul. From 2002 to 2005, she attended Istanbul Atatürk Science High School as a boarding student. Since childhood, Derya has loved adventure and believed that a regular medical school would not be sufficient for her ambitions, so she placed GATA Medical Faculty, a military medical school, at the top of her university preferences.
Her military medical journey began in 2005 and continued with plenty of action, firearms, and some crawling, culminating in her commission as a Medical Second Lieutenant in 2011.
Of course, her education did not end there; she completed one year of military training courses for her duty in the field, while simultaneously preparing for the never-ending series of exams known as TUS (Medical Specialization Exam).
At the end of one year, despite successfully completing both military training and the Medical Specialization Exam (TUS), he headed to Bingöl for his compulsory service. Believing “All of Turkey is ours,” he served soldiers, gendarmerie, and police in the Bingöl Garrison. His adventurous spirit didn’t stop there; not only did he take charge of the treatment of all units in the Bingöl Garrison, but he also fulfilled patient and injured transport duties via air ambulance helicopter with great dedication. A single hat was never enough for him.
In 2014, he returned to GATA (Gülhane Military Medical Academy) to begin his residency training after passing the TUS in 2012. Stability was not for him. While continuing his residency in 2016, he transitioned to the status of a military physician affiliated with the Ministry of Health and continued his training. In 2019, after earning his emergency medicine specialist title, he was appointed to Çubuk Halil Şıvgın State Hospital, where he learned what a warm and friendly hospital environment could be like and the value of the staff.
Learning has no age limit or end. After establishing a triage system in the emergency department of this hospital, the emergency service itself began to feel insufficient and limiting for him. While contemplating what more he could do, he encountered GETAT methods and pain treatment. Deciding to start somewhere, he attended a prolotherapy course and, from that day on, never left the world of prolotherapy. Wondering how such a treatment relieves pain and heals patients, he found himself again at Gülhane, but this time in the prolotherapy department.
He believed this work was not just about giving an injection and moving on; he needed to go deeper and learn thoroughly. Over nearly five years in the prolotherapy clinic, he gained experience with over 80,000 cases. Not stopping there, he added many GETAT treatments to his repertoire. Eventually, deciding to embark on a new adventure, he left his positions at the Ministry of Health and the General Command of the Gendarmerie and opened his own private practice.
He had one goal: prolotherapy is not only a treatment that every patient with pain should experience, but also a therapy that every physician dealing with pain should have in their toolkit.