Currently, the medical field is facing a physician-scientist shortage and the need to identify how medical training could contribute to cultivating future physician scientists is key. In general, first-year medical students do enter medical training motivated for research, still not many of them eventually seek a career in research. Therefore, this early motivation should be kept and enhanced by stimulating positive perceptions of research, positive self-efficacy beliefs, and curiosity. In this focus session we will discuss why it is important to preserve intrinsic motivation for research during medical education. Secondly, an inventive three-step inquiry based teaching method will be introduced and we will discuss how such tool could enable engagement and curiosity in research for both teachers and students. The result of this focus session will be insight in how to encourage students' research-oriented attitudes early on in medical education in order to make advancements within the medical field later.