Psychiatry
Dr. Bahruz Shukurov
Languages: Turkish
Areas of expertise
- Mindfulness-Based Approaches (MBSR)
About
Dr. Bahruz Shukurov is a psychiatrist born in Azerbaijan in 1987. He finished Goranboy School No. 39 in 2004 and, from 2006 to 2007, served 18 months in the military with Regiment No. 112 of the Ministry of Defence in Baku.
He earned his medical degree from Azerbaijan Medical University in 2014. That same year he passed the medical language examination run by ÖSYM, Türkiye's national assessment centre, followed in 2015 by the Medical Doctor Level Determination Exam.
In 2016 he left a general surgery residency in Azerbaijan and, after passing ÖSYM's Medical Specialization Exam, started training in adult psychiatry at the Department of Adult Mental Health and Disorders of the Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. He qualified as a specialist in 2020 with a thesis on body image disturbance in patients with borderline personality disorder (“Body Image Disturbance in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder”).
Dr. Shukurov also teaches mindfulness and is a full member of the Association of Mindfulness Instructors.
Education
- Medical education: Azerbaijan Medical University, Faculty of Medicine, 2008–2014
- Medical specialty training: Psychiatry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, 2016–2020
- Psychodynamically oriented group supervision (200 hours): Prof. Dr. Gökhan Oral (President of PSIKE Istanbul, Analyst, IPA), 2017–2020
- Psychodynamically oriented group supervision (10 hours): Dr. Işın Sayın Tamerk (Training Analyst, IPA), 2020
- Basic training in sexuality and sexual dysfunctions, Module 1, Part 1: Sexual Education, Treatment and Research Association (CETAD), 2019
- Basic training in sexuality and sexual dysfunctions, Module 1, Part 2: Sexual Education, Treatment and Research Association (CETAD), 2020
- Mindfulness / MBSR instructor training and supervision: 274 hours, to IMI Network global standards, 2023–2024
Conditions treated
Treatments and technology
- Technology Transcranial magnetic stimulation A non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate specific brain regions, mainly for depression that has not responded to medication.
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