CNPR is a training program designed to ensure that an entry-level sales applicant has met industrial requirements in products and their regulations to be a pharmaceutical sales representative. It is administered by National Association of Pharmaceutical Sales Reps (NAPSR). Its goal is to educate and train candidates in topics about the pharmaceutical industry such as human anatomy, pharmaceutical terms and abbreviations, drug patents, FDA regulations, CDER regulations, laws governing the pharmaceutical industry, drug sampling rules, effective physician selling skills and drug efficacy.