Being a health care provider myself makes this tricky for me. Experience is built.. and the more experience, then the more likely a practitioner of any kind is to have dealt with a particular problem.

I don't count my book-learning/schooling as "experience". But I do count the time I first laid hands on my first real live patient. It was part of my formal training, but the minute a health care provider-in-training is dealing with real patients, that is when "experience" begins. It goes on from there as they gradually become more and more independent in providing care. For me, now I am the one providing supervision.

The process of seeing patients under supervision is part of training, but it is also part of experience. So I would not consider it dishonest at all to count back to the first time they had face-to-face contact with providing care for a "real" patient.