Its resident doctors committee co-chairs, Dr Melissa Ryan and Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, said they had “made every attempt to avoid strike action by opening negotiations for pay restoration” in talks with the government on Tuesday.
But they said the government had wanted to “focus on non-pay elements without suggesting what these might be”.
They said they had “no choice” but to strike without a “credible offer to keep us on the path to restore our pay”.
“No doctor wants to strike, and these strikes don’t have to go ahead.
“If Mr Streeting can seriously come to the table in the next two weeks we can ensure that no disruption is caused. The government knows what is needed to avert strikes. The choice is theirs.”
The government said on Tuesday that it would not reopen pay negotiations and that it could not “be more generous than we already have”.
A Downing Street spokesperson added that the medics had “received the highest pay award across the public sector for two years in a row”.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused the prime minister of having “boasted that he solved the doctors’ strike” only for them to take further action.
Addressing Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions, she said he had been “weak” in dealing with the medics.
Sir Keir defended his government’s handling of the NHS, saying it was “responsible for four million extra appointments” and a 10-year plan for the health service after the Conservatives “broke it”.
Resident doctors’ basic salaries in England range from £37,000 to £70,000 a year for a 40-hour week, depending on experience, with extra payments for working nightshifts and weekends.
That does not include the latest 5.4% average pay award for this year which will start to be paid into wage packets from August.
Resident doctors took part in 11 separate strikes during 2023 and 2024.
The action in England will not affect resident doctors in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, who negotiate directly with their devolved governments on pay.